Figure 1
From: 146 Improved 3D SPACE carotid vessel wall imaging at 3.0 T
MPR image from a healthy volunteer. Residual blood signals in SPACE images were suppressed in MSD-space. Motion-sensitive dephasing preparation was combined with SPACE to improve dark-blood efficiency in carotid vessel wall imaging at 3.0 T. The increased wall-lumen CNR (66%) and isotropic submillimeter resolution from SPACE make this new sequence a promising technique for plaque screening.