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Abstract #3592

Feasibility and Reproducibility of R2* Measurement Under Oxygen and Carbogen Challenge in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma at 1.5 T and 3T

Octavia Bane 1 , Cecilia Besa 1 , Niels Oesingmann 2 , Hadrien Dyvorne 3 , Guido Jajamovich 1 , Marcelo Facciutto 4 , Sasan Roayaie 4 , and Bachir Taouli 1

1 Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States, 2 US MR Division R&D, Siemens Healthcare, New York, NY, United States, 3 ranslational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States, 4 Transplant Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States

Measurement of the transverse magnetization relaxation rate (R2*) is of great interest as a potential non-invasive marker of tumor oxygenation. The purpose of our study was to quantify R2* at baseline and after hyperoxic and hyperoxic-hypercapnic respiratory challenges, in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lesions, liver and muscle. R2* measurements were reproducible within a 15% coefficient of variation at 1.5T for all tissues and gas challenges studied, but showed greater variability at 3T. The response of HCC lesions to oxygen and carbogen challenge, quantified by change in R2*, was highly variable, and will be correlated with pathologic findings in a future study.

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