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Abstract #1669

Non-uniform Brain Temperature in Healthy Subjects

Wen-Ching Liu1, Timothy Linghau Chen2, Kyler Shin2, and David Wang3
1Radiology, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, IL, United States, 2Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States, 3Neurology, Barrow's Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States

In order to establish the standard brain regional temperatures in normal and healthy people, we initiated a weekly MR spectroscopy quality assurance program, developed the single voxel MRS thermometry calibration curve with a MRS phantom and scanned 10 normal and healthy right handed men. Five region of interests, hypothalamus, cerebellum, thalamus, frontal lobe, and occipital lobe are selected. Interestingly we found a non-uniform temperature distribution in these ROIs. The hypothalamus and thalamus have the highest temperature while cerebellum has the lowest.

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