Abstract #1545
An anthropomorphic MR phantom of the gravid abdomen including the uterus, placenta, fetus and fetal brain.
Pablo Garcia-Polo 1 , Borjan Gagoski 2 , Bastien Guerin 3 , Eric Gale 3 , Elfar Adalsteinsson 4,5 , P. Ellen Grant 2 , and Lawrence L. Wald 3,5
1
Martinos Center, MGH, M+Visin Advanced
Fellowship, Charlestown, MA, United States,
2
Fetal-Neonatal
Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center, Boston
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, United States,
3
Department
of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical
Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States,
4
Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States,
5
Harvard-MIT
Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States
Despite the importance of fetal brain development and
the potential for fetal interventions, MRI is limited in
its ability to assess fetal brain structure and
physiology. The tremendous developments in accelerated
parallel imaging, motion mitigated fast structural
imaging as well as diffusion, perfusion and spectroscopy
suggest that MRI is well placed to aid fetal healthcare,
if these methods could be transferred and optimized for
the specific issues of fetal imaging. A realistic
anthropomorphic phantom of the gravid abdomen provides
an important optimization platform to develop this
technology for this sensitive patient population. We
demonstrate a 5 compartment phantom with a floating
fetus to aid coil and sequence development.
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