Abstract #0822

Sub-Nanoliter Microscopic MR Imaging of the Human Skin in Vivo Using a 12 Mm Superconducting Surface Coil at 1.5 Tesla

Elmar Laistler^1,2, Marie Poirier-Quinot², Jean-Christophe Ginefri², Simon Lambert², Rose-Marie Dubuisson², Emeline Boriasse², Ewald Moser¹, Luc Darrasse²

¹MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²U2R2M CNRS UMR8081, Universit Paris Sud, Orsay, France

We use a high temperature superconducing surface coil with a diameter of 12 mm to depict the human skin's pertinent structures in vivo at 1.5 T at an isotropic spatial resolution of (80 m) corresponding to a voxel volume of 0.51 nl. Different anatomical structures of the skin can be identified with sufficient SNR at scan times of ~10 min.