Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is extensively utilized to picture the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Standard multi-slice procedures are afflicted by very long scan times, have restricted functional resolution because of SNR constraints and they are not suited for plaque quantitation. Multi-distinction bilateral carotid imaging applying 3D https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf