Abstract #1794

Patient free-breathing Quantitative T2 Mapping in the Pancreas

Naik Vietti Violi¹, Tom Hilbert^1,2,3, Jessica AM Bastiaansen¹, Jean-Francois Knebel^1,4, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux^1,4, Alto Stemmer⁵, Reto Meuli¹, Tobias Kober^1,2,3, and Sabine Schmidt¹

¹Radiology, Lausanne university hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³LTS5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁵Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Switzerland

In this study, we test the feasibility of free-breathing quantitative T2 measurement in the pancreas and we correlate T2-values with demographical and clinical parameters in 88 patients whom were subject to a liver MRI. We found that using a 10-fold accelerated multi-echo-spin-echo MRI prototype sequence at 3T, we were able to measure pancreatic T2-values in a short acquisition time, with low variability and a good inter-reader agreement. We found significant differences in T2-values depending on age, measurement location, main pancreatic duct dilatation and diffuse pancreatic disease.

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