On the application of chemical shift-based multipoint water-fat separation methods in balanced SSFP imaging

Chemical shift‐based multipoint water‐fat separation methods have been applied in balanced steady‐state free precession (bSSFP) sequences because of the high signal‐to‐noise‐ratio (SNR) attainable. In this approach the echo formation is approximated to occur concurrently for both water and fat at an echo time (TE) equal to half the repetition time (TR/2 approximation). However, the degree to which the imaging conditions underlying the TR/2...