Abstract #4099

Ultra-High-Resolution Dental MR Imaging Using an Ultra-Short-TE Sequence with Prospective Motion Correction

Xiang Gao¹, Philipp Amrein¹, Johannes Fischer¹, Davide Piccini^2,3, Patrick Hucker¹, Ute Ludwig¹, Jan-Bernd Hövener⁴, and Maxim Zaitsev¹

¹Department of Radiology, Medical Physics, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ²Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Department of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

High-resolution dental MR Imaging with clear boundaries is of interest for clinical applications e.g. for tooth implant planning. Due to the fast signal decay of the dental tissues, 3D ultra-short-TE (3D-UTE) sequences are employed, which combine rapid center-out half-projection readouts with a phyllotaxis ordering on the surface of k-space sphere. Even though 3D-UTE is relatively robust against subject motion, motion artifacts still limit the achievable image quality. In this work, we implement a 3D-UTE sequence with a camera-based prospective motion correction and apply it in an in vivo experiment to achieve motion-free dental imaging with an isotropic resolution of 0.35mm.

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