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Abstract #4073

Gadolinium-Enhanced Multi-Phasic MR Imaging of the Liver and Pancreas at 3.0 Tesla: Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison with 1.5 Tesla

Tonsok Kim1, Masatoshi Hori1, Hiromitsu Onishi1, Yasuhiro Nakaya1, Atsushi Nakamoto1, Mitsuaki Tatsumi1, Kaname Tomoda1, Hironobu Nakamura1

1Dept. of Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-city, Osaka, Japan


Gadolinium-enhanced multi-phasic MR imaging using 3D gradient echo sequence is clinically important for the diagnosis of hepatic and pancreatic disease. We compared tissue contrast and image quality for gadolinium-enhanced multi-phasic MR imaging of the liver and pancreas at 3.0 T with those at 1.5 T. Tissue contrast for gadolinium-enhanced multi-phasic MR imaging of the liver and pancreas at 3.0 T was equivalent to that at 1.5 T, but image quality for 3.0 T tended to be worse than that for 1.5 T.