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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