Feasibility of fast MR-thermometry during cardiac radiofrequency ablation

Validation of fast MR thermometry at 1.5

Validation of fast MR thermometry at 1.5 T with gradient-echo echo planar imaging sequences: phantom and clinical feasibility studies

✍ Alexandru Cernicanu; Matthieu Lepetit-Coiffe; Joerg Roland; Christoph D. Becker; 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 457 KB

## Abstract The purpose of this work was to validate in phantom studies and demonstrate the clinical feasibility of MR proton resonance frequency thermometry at 1.5 T with segmented gradient‐echo echo planar imaging (GRE‐EPI) sequences during liver tumour radiofrequency (RF) ablation. Classical GRE