Abstract #2916

Balanced SSFP pulmonary signal enhancement after contrast agent injection

Orso Pusterla^1,2, Grzegorz Bauman^1,2, and Oliver Bieri^1,2

¹Radiological Physics, Dep. of Radiology, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

In contrast to the common view that Gd-based contrast agents have only marginal/limited effect on balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) from its $$$T_2/T_1$$$ signal properties, we will demonstrate that especially for lung imaging single-dose contrast agent administration increases the parenchymal signal nearly up two fold.

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