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Abstract #0928

Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis at 7.0 T Using High Spatial Resolution, Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery Prepared Susceptibility Weighted Fast Spin Echo Imaging

Elena Maria Tovar Martinez1, Katharina Fuchs1, Fabian Hezel1, Matthias Alexander Dieringer1, 2, Jens Wuerfel3, 4, Thoralf Niendorf1, 5

1Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; 2Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Berlin, Germany; 3Institute of Neuroradiology, University Medicine Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; 4NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charit University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 5Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a cooperation of the Charit Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

This work demonstrates the feasibility of a high spatial resolution, fluid suppressed, susceptibility weighted FSE imaging at 7.0 T and its application for imaging of neuroinflammatory diseases.

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