Motion-compensated fat-water imaging for 3D cardiac MRI at ultra- high fields

Together with Jeanette Schulz-Menger (Charité Berlin, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch) Sebastian Dietrich, Christoph Aigner, Johannes Mayer, Christoph Kolbitsch, Tobias Schäffter and Sebastian Schmitter (PTB) have published the scientific article "Motion-compensated fat-water imaging for 3D cardiac MRI at ultra-high fields" in the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. In this work, for the first time, respiration compensated 3D MRI fat-water images of the human heart and thorax were acquired at a field strength of 7T. Special techniques were used to compensate for the spatial inhomogeneity of the radiofrequency field, which is a major problem in ultrahigh-field MRI cardiac imaging. In the future, the high field strength combined with the technique will allow high-resolution three-dimensional images of the heart to show possible fatty infiltrations of the myocardium, which is expected to be relevant for diagnosis and research of heart disease.

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Sebastian Schmitter, 8.1, E-Mail: Sebastian.Schmitter(at)ptb.de