Synopsis

Spiral MRI was invented by Ann and Cho in 1986, and was greatly enabled by the Stanford MRSL in the early 1990's. This method continues to evolve, and beyond just being a "fast" MRI method, it has many unique favorable properties, including low gradient moments, very low minimum TE, incoherent underdamping artifacts, and the capacity for high SNR efficiency. Despite all of this, Spiral MRI is not widely used clinically. This talk will outline some of the remaining obstacles to clinical adoption, with high confidence that they can be overcome.