David C Alsop1,2, Manuel Taso1,2, and Arnaud Guidon3
1Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States, 2Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3Global MR applications and workflow, GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States
1Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States, 2Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3Global MR applications and workflow, GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States
We propose a non-selective preparation of a
conventional gradient echo echoplanar sequence that enables the rapid
acquisition of many slices. Initial application to the brain readily enabled up
to 32 slice acquisition within a single TR.
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the nonselective STEAM
prepared multislice echoplanar sequence.
Figure 2: Example multi-slice b=1000 diffusion weighted
images after correction for differential slice delays by geometric averaging.