Abstract #2589

Quantitative sodium imaging of the abdomen

Arnold Julian Vinoj Benjamin¹, Mary A McClean¹, Joshua D Kaggie¹, Lucian Beer¹, Frank Riemer², Rolf F Schulte³, Titus Lanz⁴, Martin J Graves⁵, and Ferdia A Gallagher¹

¹Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, ³GE Global Research, Munich, Germany, ⁴RAPID Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany, ⁵Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom

In this study, we report sodium T2* values and total sodium concentration (TSC) values in healthy volunteers in the abdomen using a large field-of-view (FOV) birdcage sodium body coil that provides a uniform excitation over the whole abdomen. We explore whether sodium will be more specific to the BOLD effect, as sodium is a major component of blood and oxygenation of this blood will affect the sodium T2* values directly.

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