Fabian Hezel1, Peter
Kellman2, Christof Thalhammer1, Celal zerdem1,
Wolfgang Renz3, Thoralf Niendorf1
1Berlin
Ultrahigh Field Facility, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine,
Berlin, Germany; 2Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Institutes
of Health/NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA; 3Siemens Medical Systems,
Erlangen, Germany
This pilot study examines the feasibility of abdominal imaging at 7.0 T using (i) in-phase and out-of-phase imaging, (ii) high spatial resolution T1-weighted imaging, (iii) fat/water imaging and (iv) T2* mapping in conjunction with a 16 channel torso TX/RX coil array. Despite the observed non-uniformities of the RF field distribution, our initial results suggest that high spatial resolution anatomic details accomplished at 7.0 T can be considered to be beneficial in future clinical liver imaging.