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Abstract #2810

Spatial Encoding Without Gradient Coils using Field Perturbations from Susceptibility Markers

Hirad Karimi1, Charles H. Cunningham1,2

1Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada


In conventional MRI systems, the gradient fields that encode the spatial information are stationary relative to any physiologic movements. In this abstract we propose a novel MR endoscope system based on spatial encoding using the field perturbations around susceptibility markers instead of conventional gradients.