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Abstract #2041

Initial Experience of MR Elastography Using Spatially Selective Excitation for the Pancreas.

Yohei Itoh1, Yasuo Takehara2, Naoki Ooishi3, Masataka Sugiyama1, Ikumi Igarashi1, Maho Hayashi1, Satoshi Usami1, Takasuke Ushio1, Yuki Hirai1, Nobuko Yoshizawa1, Shuhei Yamashita1, Hatsuko Nasu1, Tetsuya Wakayama4, Atsushi Nozaki4, Hiroyuki Kabasawa4, and Harumi Sakahara1

1Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Hamamatsu University school of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan, 2Fundamental Development for Advanced Low Invasive Diagnostic Imaging, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, 3Radiology, Hamamatsu University Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan, 4GE Healthcare Japan, Tokyo, Japan

We tried reduced-FOV MR elastography using a local excitation technique called FOCUS for the pancreas. Comparing conventional-MRE with FOCUS-MRE, there was no significant differences of the measurable are of pancreas. In both methods, the higher the body mass index was, the smaller the measurable area of the pancreas.

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