Abstract #0219

Rapid CINE Myocardial T2* Mapping at 7T

Fabian Hezel¹, Peter Kellman², Christof Thalhammer¹, Wolfgang Renz³, Thoralf Niendorf^1,4

¹Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; ²Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Institutes of Health/NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA; ³Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany; ⁴Experimental & Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charit Campus Buch, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

Rapid CINE T2* Mapping of the heart has been demonstrated at 7T using a multi-echo gradient echo technique. Macroscopic B0 inhomogeneities have been reduced by high in-plane spatial resolution and volume selective shimming. Myocardial T2* was found to vary over myocardium and over the cardiac cycle.