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Abstract #3858

A realistic MR compatible thoracic aortic phantom to study coarctations using catheterization and cine PC-MRI sequences

Jess Urbina 1,2 , Julio Sotelo 2,3 , Israel Valverde 4,5 , Marcelo Anda 2,6 , Cristin Tejos 2,3 , Daniel Hurtado 2,7 , Pablo Irarrzabal 2,3 , and Sergio Uribe 2,6

1 School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2 Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3 Electrical Engineering Department, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 4 Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain, 5 Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla, Santiago, Spain, 6 Radiology Department, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 7 Structural Engineering Department, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Echocardiography is the most available and safe method to study hemodynamics parameters in patient with Aortic Coarctations, however, is operator dependent, pressures are over-estimated. Catheterization is the gold standard, but is invasive, non-exempt of risk and patient have to be exposed to x-ray. New methods need to be developed to obtain hemodynamic parameters no invasively, however developing these methods from patient imaging data is difficult. In this work we have built a realistic MR compatible thoracic aortic phantom to simulate different grade of stenosis, which can be used to validate hemodynamic parameters obtained from PC- MRI data under controlled experiments.

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