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Abstract #4203

Acoustic Relaxation Enhancement in MRI

Christian Hhl1, Nouri Elmiladi1, Fahimeh Jahanbakhsh1, Felix Repp1, Peter Wolf1, Karl Maier1

1Helmholtz-Institut fr Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt, Bonn, Germany


A contrast mechanism which is selective to the binding of a magnetic nanoparticle has been successfully observed in an NMR spectrometer. There are, however, difficulties to achieve compatibility with a standard MRI device. We present first experiments on how to realize this contrast mechanism in an open tomography system.