Abstract #2980

Configuration Space Imaging of 23Na at 3T

Jessica Schäper^1,2, Claudia Weidensteiner^1,2, Philipp Madörin², and Oliver Bieri^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ²Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Configuration space is explored for sodium MRI with bSSFP in phantoms and for the brain of a healthy volunteer. To this end, a set of eight phase-cycled bSSFP scans are recorded and from the lowest order configuration modes, quantitative T₁, T₂ and sodium concentration maps are heuristically derived using the framework valid for spin-1/2 particles.

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