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Abstract #3329

In Vivo Aortic MR Elastography using Free-Breathing and Single-Breath-Hold SE-EPI: Inter-Scanner Reproducibility at 1.5T and 3T

Huiming Dong1,2, Richard D White1,3, and Arunark Kolipaka1,2,3
1Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Internal Medicine-Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States

In vivo MR elastography (MRE) allows non-invasive estimation of aortic stiffness. Recently, the feasibility of multi-slice free-breathing (FB) spin-echo echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) aortic MRE was investigated. In this study, a single breath-hold (SBH) SE-EPI aortic MRE protocol was proposed and compared to FB SE-EPI aortic MRE. Moreover, in vivo FB and SBH SE-EPI aortic MRE were studied using both1.5T and 3T scanners. The main aim was to assess inter-scanner reproducibilities of FB and SBH SE-EPI aortic MRE.

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