Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is extensively used to image the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Regular multi-slice strategies are afflicted with prolonged scan moments, have constrained useful resolution as a result of SNR constraints and are not fitted to plaque quantitation. Multi-contrast bilateral carotid imaging using 3D https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf