Exploring a new method for quantitative sodium MRI in the human upper leg with a surface coil and symmetrically arranged reference phantoms | Zendy

Bastien Milani | Zendy; Jean Delacoste | Zendy; Michel Burnier | Zendy; Menno Pruijm | Zendy

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Exploring a new method for quantitative sodium MRI in the human upper leg with a surface coil and symmetrically arranged reference phantoms

Author(s) -

Bastien Milani,

Jean Delacoste,

Michel Burnier,

Menno Pruijm

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 2223-4292

pISSN - 2223-4306

DOI - 10.21037/qims.2019.06.08

Subject(s) - electromagnetic coil , computer science , surface (topology) , biomedical engineering , nuclear medicine , medicine , physics , mathematics , geometry , quantum mechanics

The aim of this study is to validate and evaluate the reproducibility of a new setup for the quantification of the tissue sodium concentration (TSC) in the human upper leg muscles with sodium MRI at 3 Tesla. This setup is making use of an emit and receive single loop surface coil together with a set of square, symmetrically arranged reference phantoms. As a second aim, the performances of two MRI protocols for the TSC quantification in the upper leg muscles are compared: one using an ultra-short echo time (UTE) 3-dimensional radial sequence (UTE-protocol), and the other one using standard gradient echo sequence (GRE-protocol).

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