Abstract #2424

Multi-Coil Metabolic Imaging, with SENSE Reconstruction, of Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate in a Live Rat at 3.0 T

James Tropp¹, Albert Chen², Janine Lupo³, Paul Calderon⁴, Thomas Grafendorfer⁵, Don McCune⁶, Fraser Robb⁶, Yi-Fen Yen⁷, Peder Larson³, Robert Bok³, Simon Hu³, Rolf Schulte⁸, Dan Vigneron³, Ralph Hurd⁷, Sarah Nelson³

¹Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Femont, CA, USA; ²Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Radiology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA; ⁴Engineering, GE Healthcare, Femont, CA, USA; ⁵Engineering, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, USA; ⁶Engineering, GE Healthcare, Aurora, OH, USA; ⁷Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, USA; ⁸MR, GE Healthcare, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany

We present multi-channel metabolic images of of hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate in the live rat, with full k space and reduced field of view acquisition with SENSE reconstruction, showing good correlation with anatomic (proton) images taken in the same exam, without moving the animal.