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Abstract #4984

Kidney stone discrimination using ultrashort TE MRI

Johannes Fischer1, Agazi Tesfai1, Ute Ludwig1, Philippe Fabian Müller2, Arkadiusz Miernik2, and Michael Bock1

1Department of Radiology, Medical Physics, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2Department of Urology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Kidney stone disease (urolithiasis) is not only very painful, but can also pose serious health risks, when the fragmentation of infected kidney stones releases bacteria, that may cause post-operative sepsis. In this work we show the ability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discriminate between common types of kidney stones using relative signal intensity and T2* relaxation times.

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