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creators_name: Dharmakumar, Rohan
creators_name: Koktzoglou, Ioannis
creators_name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
creators_name: Zuehlsdorff, Sven
creators_name: Tang, Richard
creators_name: Graham, Wright
creators_name: Li, Debiao
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creators_id: sotirios.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it
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title: Visualization and tracking of a conventional guidewire with low flip angle SSFP imaging: an initial study
ispublished: submitted
subjects: QA76
subjects: RC
subjects: TK
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
pres_type: poster
abstract: Inductive coupling between signal reception coils and conventional guidewires in the presence of low flip-angle (LF) balanced SSFP (b-SSFP) imaging may permit the visualization of guidewires with positive contrast. To test our hypothesis, ex-vivo and in-vivo experiments were performed using a radio-opaque coronary guidewire and LF b-SSFP imaging. Our initial studies showed that it is possible to visualize and track a conventional guidewire with positive contrast using LF b-SSFP imaging within ex-vivo and in-vivo settings. These results lend support to the hypothesis that signal reception coils and passive guidewires may be inductively coupled in the presence of LF excitations.
date: 2009
date_type: submitted
event_title: 17th Meeting of the  international society for magnetic resonance in medicine
event_location: Honolulu, Hawaii
event_dates: 18-24 April 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
related_url_url: http://www.ismrm.org/09/index.htm
related_url_type: org
citation:   Dharmakumar, Rohan and Koktzoglou, Ioannis and Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Zuehlsdorff, Sven and Tang, Richard and Graham, Wright and Li, Debiao  Visualization and tracking of a conventional guidewire with low flip angle SSFP imaging: an initial study.  In: 17th Meeting of the international society for magnetic resonance in medicine, 18-24 April 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii       (Submitted)   (2009)