Abstract #1230

Towards fast but accurate velocity quantification with 3D ultra-short TE phase contrast imaging

Katja Degenhardt¹, Christoph Stefan Aigner¹, Simon Schmidt^2,3, Fabian J. Kratzer³, Max Müller⁴, Armin M. Nagel^3,4, Jeanette Schulz-Menger^5,6, and Sebastian Schmitter^1,2,3

¹Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany, ²Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ³Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine and HELIOS Hospital Berlin Buch, Berlin, Germany, ⁶DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Synopsis

The aim of this work is to develop and investigate an accurate sequence for MR flow quantification. We utilized a 3D ultra-short echo time (UTE) flow sequence to minimize the displacement artifact that frequently occurs in MR flow imaging. In UTE acquisitions, the position is encoded at the beginning of the readout. Thus, the time difference between velocity encoding and spatial position encoding is minimized. This leads to an improved accuracy of the velocity quantification. The sequence was tested and validated against a reference sequence and a conventional 4D flow sequence in a flow experiment in vitro at 3T.

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