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Abstract #4574

Capturing Time-Dependent Electric Currents Using MRI with A Sub-Millisecond Temporal Resolution

Zheng Zhong1,2, Muge Karaman1,2, Theodore Claiborne1, and Xiaohong Joe Zhou1,2,3,4

1Center for MR Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 3Radiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 4Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Neuronal current mapping using MRI has profound biomedical applications, but is hampered by limited temporal resolution. Using a technique known as Sub-Millisecond Imaging of cycLic Event or SMILE, we demonstrate that the temporal resolution of MRI can be substantially increased to the sub-millisecond scale or shorter. This allows capturing ultra-fast physical or biological processes that are cyclic. Although our experimental studies are limited to mapping time-varying currents in a phantom, the same concept can be extended to capturing more complex biological processes, including but not limited to, neuronal currents.

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