Abstract #4050

Portal Perfusion Assessment in the Liver with Portal Spin Labeling at 3 Tesla MRI

Takeshi Yoshikawa¹, Nobukazu Aoyama², Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Akira Suwa³, Katsusuke Kyotani², Tomonori Kanda¹, Naoki Kanata¹, Hisanobu Koyama¹, Kazuhiro Kitajima¹

¹Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ²Division of Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ³Philips Electronics Japan, Tokyo, Japan

We developed portal spin labeling technique for evaluation of portal perfusion in the liver and liver tumors and report the initial results in clinical cases.