Abstract #2043

The assessment of gallstones using three dimensional ultra-short echo time in vivo

Mamoru Takahashi¹, Yasuo Takehara², Norihiro Tooyama¹, Katsutoshi Ichijo¹, Tomoyasu Amano³, Takuya Matsumoto³, Tomoyuki Okuaki⁴, Yukiko Fukuma⁴, and Harumi Sakahara⁵

¹Radiology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan, ²Fundamental Development for Advanced Low Invasive Diagnostic Imaging, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, ³Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan, ⁴Philips Electronics Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

First clinical study using 3D dual echo UTE sequence for suspected gall stone patients was performed. All gallstones were able to be detected as positive signal in-vivo. Our study may indicate that UTE has an added value of depicting impacted stones or hepatolithiasis as positive signal.

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