Abstract #1513
Imaging Battery for Brain Quantification
M. Ethan MacDonald 1,2 , M. Louis Lauzon 2,3 , and Richard Frayne 2,3
1
Biomedical Engineering, University of
Calgary, Caglary, AB, Canada,
2
Seaman
Family Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, Hotchkiss
Brain Institute, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB,
Canada,
3
Radiology
and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary,
Calgary, AB, Canada
In this work combined methodologies for rapidly
acquiring parametric maps of the brain are described.
Several parameters in the brain, including: T1, T2, T2*,
magnetic susceptibility and proton density are
calculated, in addition to several machine distortion
parameters, including: B0 and B1 field inhomogeneity,
and coil profiles. The protocol time used to produce
these images was less than 26 minutes, and resulted in
whole brain coverage with 1 mm^3 isotropic resolution.
Collection of these key physiological and machine
distortion parameters will allow for advanced simulation
of the MR system.
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