Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is widely used to graphic the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Standard multi-slice methods have problems with long scan times, have confined realistic resolution resulting from SNR constraints and therefore are not suited for plaque quantitation. Multi-distinction bilateral carotid imaging making use of https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf