Abstract #1124

A Preliminary Study of 3D Rat Spine Imaging by Using Wideband MRI Technique

Yun-An Huang¹, Edzer L. Wu¹,², Tzi-Dar Chiueh¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹,², Jason Liu³

¹Dept. Electrical engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Institue of biomedical engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Wideband MRI is a technique that can either speed up the scan time or increase image resolution by acquiring images of multiple locations simultaneously. Our preliminary result demonstrate the 3D scanning of rat spine by using 4x acceleration (W=4) Wideband MRI technique, which can reduced the scanning from 40 minutes to 10 minutes. We have showed the possibility to complete the 3D spine imaging within 10 minutes which is valuable in clinical study.