Abstract #3890

LST-Based Optimization of Patient Specific Contrast Media Administration for CE-MRA: Validation Studies in Phantoms and Volunteers

Daniel Kopeinigg^1,2, Dominik Fleischmann¹, Rudolf Stollberger², Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; ²University of Technology Graz, Graz, Austria

A LST-based optimization approach as introduced last year -- uses a test bolus of contrast media to extract patient-specific physiological properties with the objective to compute an injection profile that results in a desired intravascular enhancement profile.