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Abstract #1317

3D BOLD-MRI at High PAT-Factors: How to Save Time!

Florian Lietzmann1, Frank G. Zoellner1, Tanja Gaa1, Ulrike I. Attenberger2, Lothar R. Schad1

1Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; 2University Medical Centre Mannheim, Institute of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Mannheim, Germany

In recent years blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI has gained more importance in the entire field of MRI.Therefore we performed a clinical study with 4 healthy volunteers and investigated if the signal changes in the kidney due to a water intake of the volunteers could satisfactorily being followed and if our optimized sequences with high parallel imaging acceleration factors can be used for quick renal BOLD-MRI. We investigated three different sequences each with a different resolution and imaging time.

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