Abstract #0136

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting - Evaluation of Brain Gliomas in Comparison to a Conventional Advanced Tumor Protocol - Preliminary Study

Siegfried Trattnig^1,2, Wolfgang Bogner¹, Bernhard Strasser¹, Peter Bär¹, Simone Kitzer¹, Pavol Szomolanyi¹, Matthias Nittka³, Wolfgang Marik⁴, Martin Zalaudek¹, Markus Schreiner¹, and Elisabeth Springer¹

¹Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, High Field MR Center, Vienna, Austria, ²Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MR Imaging, Vienna, Austria, ³Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Synopsis: MR Fingerprinting (MRF) was compared to an advanced brain tumor protocol in 10 patients with surgically proven gliomas. The T1 and T2 relaxation times provided by MRF in one scan showed a high correlation with conventionally measured T1 and T2 values. MRF obtained T1 and T2 values allowed a statistically significant differentiation between low and high grade gliomas. MRF with quantitative data and the possibility to generate synthetic MR contrast images may replace conventional MR sequences in the future.

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