Abstract #3388

Fluid-Suppressed 23Na MRI of Knee Joint at 7T

Jae-Seung Lee¹, Souheil Inati², Ravinder Regatte³, Alexej Jerschow¹

¹Chemistry Department, New York University, New York, United States; ²Center for Brain Imaging, New York University, New York, United States; ³Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University, New York, United States

We demonstrate excellent fluid suppression in ²³Na MRI at 7T by using inversion-recovery and quadrupolar contrast techniques. These methods will greatly improve quantification of tissue sodium concentrations, which in turn will help in providing diagnostic techniques for cartilage tissues.