Introduction: Multi-contrast MRI is greatly used to image the vessel wall and characterize the composition of atherosclerotic plaques. Common multi-slice techniques experience long scan instances, have constrained realistic resolution because of SNR constraints and are not suited to plaque quantitation. Multi-distinction bilateral carotid imaging applying 3D Inner Volume Rapid Spin https://usc-mrel.github.io/Conference/2009_ISMRM/Makhijani_2009_ISMRM_p1824.pdf