Abstract #4518

Microstructural Assessment of Dental Tissues by Quantitative MRI Using Ultra-Short Echo Times (UTE): Initial In-Vivo Evaluation

Sad Boujraf^1,2, Christian Hofmann^1,3, Johannes Ulrici⁴, Erich Hell⁴, Bernd Haller³, Volker Rasche¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ²Department of Biophysics and Clinical MRI Methods, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, Fez, Morocco; ³Department of paraodontology, Dental University Clinic of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ⁴Sirona Dental Systems GmbH, Bensheim, Germany

This work demonstrates the application of in-vivo UTE-MRI for assessing hard-tissue features of teeth with sufficient spatial-resolution and tissue-contrast within reasonable scan time.