Abstract #0036

Music-Based Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting to Improve Patient Comfort During MRI Examinations

Dan Ma¹, Eric Y. Pierre², Yun Jiang ², Mark D. Schluchter³, Kawin Setsompop⁴, Vikas Gulani¹, and Mark Griswold¹

¹Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ²Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ³Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ⁴A.A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

An acquisition method named MRF-Music is proposed to mitigate the acoustic noise during MRI scans by producing musical sounds directly from the switching magnetic fields while simultaneously quantifying multiple important tissue properties. MP3 music files were converted to arbitrary encoding gradients, which were then used with varying flip angles and TRs in both 2D and 3D MRF exam to generate T1, T2 and proton density maps. The MRF-Music scans were shown to significantly improve patients’ comfort. T1 and T2 measured from phantom and in vivo scans were also in good agreement with those from the standard measurements and reported values.

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