Fernando Emilio Boada1, Yongxian Qian1,
Frank Lieberman2, Denise Davis1, Ronald Hamilton3
1MR Research Center, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Neurooncology,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 3Department
of Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Imaging
of primary brain tumors at Ultra-High Field (UHF) magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has tremendous appeal due to the expected improvements in contrast at
spatial resolution scales previously unpractical for in vivo human MRI. In
this work we demonstrate the use of UHF for evaluating the microvascular
structure of brain tumors and the improvements in signal quantification
during sodium MRI