Kyongtae Ty Bae1, Jung-Hwan Kim1,
Chan Hong Moon1, Alessandro Furlan1, Bumwoo Park1,
Tiejun Zhao2
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA, United States; 2MR Research Support, Siemens Healthcare,
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
We
performed dual-tuned 23Na/1H MR imaging of human abdominal organs at 7T and
demonstrated the spatial distribution of sodium in the kidney using sodium MR
imaging. Future development of 23Na MR imaging will be focused on clinical
application of sodium MR imaging in the abdomen to assess a variety of
physiological and pathological conditions accompanied with changes in sodium
concentration.
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