Abstract #3894

Real-time Chest MRI within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Yu Y. Li¹, Wolfgang Loew¹, Ronald Pratt¹, Randy Giaquinto¹, Stephanie Merhar¹, Jean Tkach¹, and Charles Dumoulin¹

¹Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

The presented work investigates a real-time imaging approach to chest MRI on a 21.8cm bore scanner dedicated for neonatal examination within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This approach is based on the development of a 10-channel small coil array, a fast imaging pulse sequence, and an iterative image reconstruction algorithm. It is experimentally demonstrated that real-time imaging can provide high-quality cardiac and pulmonary images for improved clinical diagnosis in premature babies within the NICU.

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