Abstract #1828

MR Thermometry in Moving Objects Using a Novel Referenceless and User-Independent Approach

Bruno Madore¹, Renxin Chu¹, Chang-Sheng Mei^1,2, Lawrence P. Panych¹

¹Radiology Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, United States; ²Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

MR thermometry in moving organs is a challenging application, as fairly subtle temperature-induced changes must be accurately measured in the presence of often much larger motion-induced changes. A novel approach at doing so is proposed here, which is both referenceless (does not require a baseline reference image) and user-independent.