Katharina Fuchs1,
Fabian Hezel1, Lukas Winter1, Celal Oezerdem1,
Andreas Graessl1, Matthias Alexander Dieringer1, 2,
Oliver Kraus1, Thoralf Niendorf1, 3
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, Berlin,
Germany; 3Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a cooperation
of the Charit Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular
Medicine, Berlin, Germany
This study demonstrates the feasibility of cardiac fast spin echo (FSE) imaging at 7.0 T in healthy volunteers. For this purpose a novel 16 dipole element transmit/receive coil array is used. Our preliminary results show encouraging image quality reflecting subtle anatomical structures.