Abstract #1476
Breath-hold UTE Lung Imaging using a Stack-of-Spirals Acquisition
John P. Mugler, III 1 , Samuel W. Fielden 2 , Craig H. Meyer 2 , Talissa A. Altes 1 , G. Wilson Miller 1 , Alto Stemmer 3 , Josef Pfeuffer 3 , and Berthold Kiefer 3
1
Radiology & Medical Imaging, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States,
2
Biomedical
Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA, United States,
3
Siemens
Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
The purpose of this work was to implement a breath-hold
UTE acquisition based on an optimized 3D
stack-of-spirals acquisition, and to perform a
proof-of-concept evaluation of the method for detection
of small lung nodules in three subjects with COPD, who
had confirmed pulmonary nodules on CT. All nodules
detected with CT (ranging from approximately 3-mm to
1-cm) were apparent on MRI. Our results suggest that the
breath-hold UTE method may have potential for MR-based
detection of pulmonary nodules.
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