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Abstract #1125

Abdominal Imaging with Heterogeneous Radiofrequency Fields at 7 Tesla

Martijn A Cloos1,2, Jan Paška1,2, Zidan Yu1,2,3, Jakob Assländer1,2, Tiejun Zhao1,2,4, Riccardo Lattanzi1,2,3, Graham C Wiggins1,2, and Daniel K Sodickson1,2,3

1Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 3The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 4Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Siemens Healthineers, New York, NY, United States

Body imaging using ultra-high field systems operating at 7T or more is extremely challenging due to the non-uniformities in the excitation field. Traditionally, these field variations are seen as a nuance that must be calibrated out, leading to a formidable engineering challenge. Recently, a new paradigm was proposed which deliberately interweaves multiple uncalibrated non-uniform RF fields into the scan. In this work we demonstrate these principles in-vivo and show that it is possible to obtain artifact free cross-sectional quantitative maps of the abdomen at 7T across a variety of different subject sizes without the need for any specific calibrations.

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