Abstract #1191

Increasing the Value of Legacy MRI Scanners with Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting

Brendan Lee Eck¹, Wei-ching Lo¹, Yun Jiang¹, Kecheng Liu², Vikas Gulani³, and Nicole Seiberlich¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ²Siemens Healthineers, Cleveland, OH, United States, ³Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, United States

Few of the 32,000 MRI scanners around the world are equipped with the latest hardware and software required for advanced imaging. Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) presents an opportunity to expand the value of the existing MRI install base as it is rapid, quantitative, and does not require the latest gradient systems or multi-channel receiver coils. In this work, we demonstrate repeatable and reproducible T₁ and T₂ MRF maps on a 16-year-old MRI scanner as a proof of principle towards implementing MRF on cheap, legacy MRI scanners.

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