Keywords: High-Field MRI, Arterial spin labelling
Motivation: As the most promising method for measuring tissue perfusion, ASL suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), with tagged blood typically causing only few percent of signal difference.
Goal(s): Explore if the use of 5T MRI could lead to higher SNR and CNR for renal ASL than 3T.
Approach: We performed FAIR-EPI on the kidneys of three healthy subjects at 6 inversion times on both 3T and 5T systems. SNR and CNR of difference images were calculated and compared.
Results: SNR at 5T was 10.72±2.81, higher than 7.75±2.65 (P = 0.008) at 3T, and CNR were 9.08±4.08 and 6.53±2.14 (P=0.029), respectively.
Impact: 5T ASL provides difference images with higher SNR and CNR to allow faster acquisition and better corticomedullary differentiation while maintaining comparable image quality.
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