Abstract #2960

Variable Flip Angle Pipeline for in vivo Sodium Concentration Measurements (VaSCo)

Arthur Coste¹, Fawzi Boumezbeur¹, Alexandre Vignaud¹, Guillaume Madelin², Kathrin Reetz³, Denis Le Bihan¹, Cécile Lerman¹, and Sandro Romanzetti³

¹NeuroSpin, CEA, Paris Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Paris, France, ²Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, USA, ³Aachen University Clinic, Neurology Department, Aachen, Germany

This work presents a new method to measure Sodium concentration in human tissue using the Variable Flip Angle method with optimized acquisition parameters. Healthy volunteers were scanned and measures provided concentration values and T1 values in agreement with litterature values.

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