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3D turbo spin echo imaging technique: SPACE
LI Guo-bin  ZHANG Wei-jun 

DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.04.012.


[Abstract] 2D turbo spin echo (TSE) has been the work-horse in clinical MR imaging for many years, but its sampling efficiency is still limited by high SAR and strong T2 blurring in long echo train acquisition, and it can not provide fast 3D imaging. As a variant of TSE, SPACE dramatically reduces the SAR and T2 blurring in ultra-long echo train acquisition by employing variable refocusing flip angles. Currently, SPACE has been used in a wide range of clinical applications. The evolution and the research interest of SPACE technique will also be mentioned.
[Keywords] Magnetic resonance imaging；Turbo spin echo；SPACE；Variable flip angle

LI Guo-bin* Application Department, Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen 518057, China

ZHANG Wei-jun Application Department, Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen 518057, China

*Correspondence to: Li GB, E-mail: guo.bin.li@siemens.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2010-06-25
Accepted  2010-07-05
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.04.012
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2010.04.012.

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