title: Fast three dimensional sodium imaging.
abstract: An efficient scheme for fast three dimensional acquisition of sodium MR images is described. This scheme relies on the use of three dimensional k-space trajectories with constant sample density to achieve significant (60-70%) reductions in total data acquisition time over conventional projection imaging schemes. The performance of this data acquisition scheme is demonstrated with acquisition of sodium data sets on phantoms and normal human volunteers at 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla. The experimental results demonstrate that high quality three dimensional sodium images (0.2 cc voxel size, 10:1 signal-to-noise ratio) can be acquired at clinical field strengths (1.5 Tesla) in under 10 min.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Boada
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gillen
authors.forename: G X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Thulborn
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012964:Sodium