Abstract #1308

Fink C, Lanz T, Reiser M, Schoenberg S, Dietrich O, Herzog P, Eibel R, Theisen D

In this study the feasibility of HASTE of the lung at 3T using parallel imaging with a dedicated 32-receiver channel technology was assessed. Our results indicate that acceleration factors up to 4 can be achieved without degradation of the image quality (e.g. due to artefacts and poor signal to noise ratio). Expiratory scanning may be favourable to compensate for susceptibility associated signal loss of the lung at 3T.