Abstract #4907

Free-breathing multi-slice ultra-fast SSFP acquisitions for multi-volumetric morphological and functional lung imaging

Orso Pusterla^1,2, Grzegorz Bauman^1,2, and Oliver Bieri^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, Division of Radiological Physics, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Multi-volumetric breath-hold imaging was recently proposed for respiratory $$$\alpha$$$-mapping, a novel quantitative measure of pulmonary ventilation. In this work, we evaluate the feasibility to derive 3D pulmonary functional maps from morphological lung data which are reconstructed from a time-series of multi-slice 2D ultra-fast SSFP scans acquired in free-breathing (4D-MRI).

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