Synopsis

Keywords: Physics & Engineering: High-Field MRI

With the higher-signal to-noise ratio 7T allows improved visualization of cortical lesions, the central vein sign and the detection of paramagnetic rim lesions in MS for differential diagnosis to non-MS lesions and disease progression and small structures in MSK.
High resolution MR spectroscopic imaging at 7T has provided new insights into tumor grading and tumor recurrence, early stages of inflammation and correlation with clinical disability of MS patients.
Multi-nuclear clinical applications such as sodium imaging have shown high potential for definition of responder to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer and the evaluation of repair tissue quality after cartilage transplantation.