  There has been increased interest in the quantitative characterization of
tissues based on T2 in abdominal imaging. Techniques based on spin-echo or
turbo spin-echo sequences are time consuming because they require multiple
acquisitions for obtaining an adequate number of TE images for accurate T2
mapping. Radial turbo spin echo (RADTSE) based methods have been shown to
generate accurate T2 maps from a single acquisition using highly undersampled
data. In this work, we present details of the RADTSE technique, summarizing
developments related to the design of pulse sequence and reconstruction
algorithms. Results from phantom and in vivo imaging experiments are also
presented.
