Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is widely used to image the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Normal multi-slice procedures suffer from long scan situations, have minimal functional resolution on account of SNR constraints and are not suited to plaque quantitation. Multi-distinction bilateral carotid imaging making use of 3D https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf