Abstract #3629

Dedicated High-Performance, Lightweight, Low-Cryogen Compact 3.0T MRI System for Advanced Brain Imaging

Thomas Foo¹, Mark Vermilyea¹, Minfeng Xu¹, Paul Thompson¹, Ye Bai¹, Gene Conte¹, Christopher Van Epps¹, James Rochford¹, Christopher Immer¹, Seung-Kyun Lee¹, Ek Tsoon Tan¹, Dominic Graziani¹, Christopher Hardy¹, John Schenck¹, Eric Fiveland¹, Yunhong Shu², John Huston III², Matt Bernstein², Wolfgang Stautner¹, Justin Ricci¹, and Evangelos Laskaris¹

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, NY, United States, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

A high-performance, lightweight, low-cryogen compact 3.0T MRI system for imaging the brain has been developed. This system has a gradient performance of 80 mT/m and 700 T/m/s, and has a magnet weight of less than 2,000 kg and has a 5 Gauss fringe field area of 24 m². This novel system has produced images that are equivalent if not better than that encountered in whole-body 3.0T scanners. This was demonstrated in imaging tests in healthy volunteers. Clinical evaluation is scheduled for a patient population.

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