Abstract #4519

In-Vitro Quantification of Dental Filling Induced Artifacts in Dental Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) at 3 Tesla

Sad Boujraf^1,2, Christian Hofmann^1,3, Regina Maschka³, Johannes Ulrici⁴, Erich Hell⁴, Bernd Haller³, Volker Rasche¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ²Department of Biophysics and Clinical MRI Methods, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, Fez, Morocco; ³Department of paraodontology, Dental University Clinic of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ⁴Sirona Dental Systems GmbH, Bensheim, Germany

The aim of this study is assessing the sensitivity of UTE-MRI to artifacts induced by dental filling-materials, and to compare the resulting artifact levels in UTE Images to conventional 3D-spin-echo and 3D-gradient-echo techniques