Andreas Deistung1, Juliane Budde2,
Ferdinand Schweser3, Jens Hoffmann2, Rolf Pohmann2,
Jrgen R. Reichenbach3
1Medical Physics Group,
Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital
, Jena, Germany; 2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Tbingen, Germany; 3Medical Physics Group, Department of
Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital, Jena,
Germany
This contribution presents a new reconstruction technique for combining multi-channel phase images based on a dual-echo GRE acquisition. The method is applied to multichannel GRE data acquired at 9.4T with 0.4 mm isotropic spatial resolution. SHARP-processed phase images and quantitative susceptibility maps showing sections of the cerebral cortex of the occipital and temporal lobe were presented. The susceptibility contrast is, contrary to the phase contrast, local and depicts the underlying anatomy directly. Susceptibility maps varied across the cortical thickness suggesting a layer-specific contrast. Furthermore, the magnetic susceptibility of gray matter varied depending on the cortical region.