A machine prototype for FFC MRI and localized NMR relaxometry

AGUSTIN ROMERO; GONZALO RODRIGUEZ; GABRIELA A. DOMINGUEZ; ALEXIS BERTÉ; ESTEBAN ANOARDO

Mikolajki

Conferencia; 10th Conference on Fast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry; 2017

University of Warmia and Mazury

We present a fast field-cycling MRI relaxometer developed in our Lab [1]. MRI capabilitiesin a field-cycling apparatus enables localized relaxometry studies in heterogeneoussamples, and the possibility to produce MR images weighted at low magnetic fields (a fewmT or lower) in samples showing combined high and low T1 dispersions and shortrelaxation times at low-fields (a few milliseconds). The designed instrument is of potentialuse in smalls animals, and particularly suitable for the design of relaxation-enhancingcontrasts agents and magnetic localized hyperthermia, within other non-biomedicalapplications. We show general details of the hardware and some preliminary results.