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Abstract #2627

A Double Resonant Solenoid Coil for 35Cl/ 23Na Imaging of the Rat Brain at a Whole Body 7 Tesla MRI

Manuela Rsler1, Reiner Umathum1, Armin Nagel1, Yaron Gordon1, Peter Bachert1, Wolfhard Semmler1, Florian Meise1

1Dept. of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Sodium and Chlorine ions are central in the physiology of living organisms. To detect them quasi-simultaneously in a rat brain would improve the understanding of (patho-) physiological processes.

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