Abstract #1230
Towards fast but accurate velocity quantification with 3D ultra-short TE phase contrast imaging
Katja Degenhardt1, Christoph Stefan Aigner1, Simon Schmidt2,3, Fabian J. Kratzer3, Max Müller4, Armin M. Nagel3,4, Jeanette Schulz-Menger5,6, and Sebastian Schmitter1,2,3
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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