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Abstract #2587

7T Human Liver Imaging Using Microstrip Surface Coil

Yong Pang1, Bing Wu2, Chunsheng Wang2, Daniel Vigneron2,3, Xiaoliang Zhang2,3

1Radiology and Biomedical imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA , United States; 2Radiology and Biomedical imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; 3 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco & Berkeley, CA, United States


MRI can provide clinically-valuable images for hepatic diseases and has become the most accurate noninvasive method in evaluating liver lesions. With the development of high and ultrahigh field MRI, liver images may be acquired within breath-hold period using very short TE, essentially reducing scanning time and motion artifacts. However, B1 variation can cause significant problems at high field. In this work, T1 weighted human liver images are acquired using a fast gradient echo sequence and a λ/2 microstrip surface coil on GE whole body 7T scanner. Preliminary data demonstrates the feasibility of human liver imaging at 7 Tesla.