Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is broadly used to image the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Standard multi-slice techniques are afflicted with very long scan moments, have limited useful resolution on account of SNR constraints and they are not fitted to plaque quantitation. Multi-contrast bilateral carotid imaging using https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf