Abstract #4984

Kidney stone discrimination using ultrashort TE MRI

Johannes Fischer¹, Agazi Tesfai¹, Ute Ludwig¹, Philippe Fabian Müller², Arkadiusz Miernik², and Michael Bock¹

¹Department of Radiology, Medical Physics, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ²Department of Urology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Kidney stone disease (urolithiasis) is not only very painful, but can also pose serious health risks, when the fragmentation of infected kidney stones releases bacteria, that may cause post-operative sepsis. In this work we show the ability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discriminate between common types of kidney stones using relative signal intensity and T₂* relaxation times.

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