Abstract #0203

Lung MR Imaging with Ultra-Short TE at

Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Hisanobu Koyama¹, Keiko Matsumoto¹, Yumiko Onishi¹, Daisuke Takenaka¹, Munebu Nogami¹, Nobukazu Aoyama², Hideaki Kawamitsu², Makoto Obara³, Marc van Cauteren³, Masaya Takahashi⁴, Kazuro Sugimura¹

¹Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ²Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ³Philips Healthcare, Tokyo, Japan; ⁴Radiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

Regional T2* measurement can be easier performed by using 3.0 T system than 1.5 T system in routine clinical practice. We hypothesized that direct T2* measurement in the lung has potential to play a new method for pulmonary functional loss assessment at 3.0 T system. The purpose of this study was to determine the capability of Lung MR imaging with ultra-short TE (uTE MRI) at 3T MR system for measurement of regional T2* in the lung and pulmonary functional assessment in normal and COPD subjects.