Abstract #0768
Towards clinical cardiac MR at 7.0 T: Early experience with black blood RARE imaging in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Till Huelnhagen 1 , Katharina Paul 1 , Andreas Pohlmann 1 , Andreas Graessl 1 , Jan Rieger 2 , Darius Lysiak 2 , Christof Thalhammer 1 , Marcel Prothmann 3 , Jeanette Schulz-Menger 3,4 , and Thoralf Niendorf 1,4
1
Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.),
Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC),
Berlin, Germany,
2
MRI.TOOLS
GmbH, Berlin, Germany,
3
Dept. of Cardiology
and Nephrology, HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin,
Germany,
4
Experimental
and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation
between the Charite Medical Faculty and the
Max-Delbrueck Center, Berlin, Germany
This study reports on early experiences made with
cardiac black blood RARE imaging at 7.0 T in healthy
volunteers and patients with hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy. Our preliminary results underscore that
cardiac black blood imaging at 7.0 T remains challenging
in in patients. The main obstacles causing suboptimal
image quality identified here were motion induced
artifacts due to non-compliance with the breath-hold
regime, mis-triggering due to cardiac arrhythmia and
acquisition window timing within the cardiac cycle. It's
concluded that further developments are essential to
translate the benefits of high resolution black blood
imaging at 7.0 T into a clinical setting.
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