462-05-005 ISMRM Abstract

Improving reliability of MRI thermometry during microwave ablations – influence of target temperature in animal liver ex vivo

Primary: Interventional - Thermometry/Thermotherapy

Secondary: Interventional - MR-Guided Interventions

462-05-005 · Interventional MRI: Device, Catheter Tracking, and Image-Guided Therapy · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Digital Posters Row C

Keywords: Image Quality Assessment MRI-guided ablation MRI thermometry Interventional radiology Microwave ablation liver

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Luigi Nardone^1,2, Alexander Sheng Ming Tan^1,3, Pierre Bour⁴, Matthias Philipp Fabritius¹, Elif Öcal¹, Vanessa Franziska Schmidt¹, Mingming Wu¹, Laura M Bauer ¹, Valéry Ozenne⁵, Jens Ricke¹, Max Seidensticker¹, Olaf Dietrich⁶

¹Department of Radiology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

²Institute of Radiology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

³Singapore General Hospital, SingHealth Duke-NUS Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, Singapore, Singapore

⁴Certis Therapeutics, Pessac, France

⁵Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

⁶Department of Radiology, LMU Klinikum Munich, München, Germany

Presenting Author: Laura M Bauer

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