Abstract #0603

Real-time MRI endoscopy at up to 10 frames/sec

Xiaoyang Liu^1,2, Parag Karmarkar², Dirk Voit³, Jens Frahm³, and Paul Bottomley^1,2

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, ²Russell H. Morgan Dept. of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, ³Biomedizinishe NMR Forschungs GmbH, Max-Plank-Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie, Gottingen, Germany

Mininally-invasive intravascular MRI at 3T and above is capable of providing high resolution imaging from within blood vessels and identifying atherosclerosis using miniaturized detectors ~2mm in diameter. Endoscopic MRI is a technique that employs the miniature probe itself to localize the MRI signal to a sensitive disk, and provide images from the view-point of the probe itself. At 3T, acquisition speed has been limited to 2 frames/sec at 300μm resolution, which although fast, is not truly real-time. Here we report a truly real-time MRI endoscope with fully integrated real-time continuous MRI visualization at up to 10 frames/sec.

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