Introduction: Multi-distinction MRI is commonly used to picture the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Conventional multi-slice approaches have problems with very long scan times, have restricted functional resolution due to SNR constraints and are not fitted to plaque quantitation. Multi-distinction bilateral carotid imaging working with 3D https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf