Abdominal T1 relaxation times at 7T
摘要
To quantify the T1 relaxation times at 7T for key abdominal organs and tissues, including the liver, kidney, spleen, and skeletal paraspinal muscles.
Materials and methodsT1 mapping was performed on a 7T whole-body scanner with a parallel transmission (pTx) system in five healthy volunteers. Static pTx (B1+ shimming) was applied to maximize B1+ magnitude in the target region. For each T1 map, data were collected using eight snapshot gradient-echo inversion recovery sequences during breath holding. Voxel-wise T1 values were calculated based on DICOM data using exponential model fitting.
ResultsMean abdomen T1 values and corresponding coefficients of variation across the group were: 1829 ± 60 ms, 3.3% for the kidney cortex; 2619 ± 83 ms, 3.2% for the kidney medulla; 1378 ± 48 ms, 3.5% for the liver; 1954 ± 28 ms, 1.4% for the skeletal paraspinal muscle; 1770 ± 36 ms, 2.0% for the spleen.
ConclusionIn this study, we quantified the T1 relaxation times at 7T for key abdominal organs and tissues, including the liver, kidney, spleen, and skeletal paraspinal muscle. To achieve this, pTx was applied to mitigate B1+ dropouts in the target regions. The B1+ insensitive snapshot gradient-echo inversion recovery method was utilized to acquire accurate and reproducible T1 maps.