Introduction: Multi-distinction MRI is widely used to image the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Regular multi-slice strategies are afflicted with long scan times, have limited simple resolution due to SNR constraints and they are not suited to plaque quantitation. Multi-contrast bilateral carotid imaging applying 3D Internal https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf