Ligong Wang1, Yan Wu1, Gregory Chang1, Niels Oesingmann2, Mark E. Schweitzer1, Alexej Jerschow3, Ravinder R. Regatte1
1Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, USA; 3Chemistry Department, New York University, NY, US
The main purpose of this work was to demonstrate the feasibility of acquiring high resolution, isotropic 3D-sodium knee images of healthy and OA patients in vivo at 7T with clinically acceptable scan times via 3D-radial acquisition. The preliminary results suggest that the sodium imaging at 7T may be a viable potential alternative for OA imaging.
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