Yongxian Qian1, Tiejun Zhao2,
Jonathan Weimer3, Hai Zheng3, Fernando E. Boada1,3
1Radiology, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2R&D, Siemens
Medical Solutions USA, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 3Bioengineering,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The 7T scanners produce images of higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) than the 3T scanners and thus have potential to generate sodium images of higher spatial resolutions. This work demonstrates the feasibility of high-resolution (0.86mm) sodium imaging on human brain at 7T.