Special Articles

1.　 Pediatric cardiac MR imaging with current MR technology

Atsushi Takemura, Akira Suwa, Yasutomo Katsumata, Mitsuyo Matsumoto, Kenji Iinuma
Application Specialist-MR, Application Support Group, CS&Operations, Healthcare, Philips Electronics Japan, Ltd.

Abstract

　The non-invasive pediatric cardiac MRI study without radiation or contrast agents has been of much interest recently.
　But as for the pediatric or infant patients, it has been very difficult to obtain satisfactory MRI images due to their higher heart rate（about 100bpm）and small heart size.
　We can provide many kinds of receiver coils, so that the best coils for pediatric or infant patients are available.
　As a result we can obtain the best image quality with high signals and high special resolution.
　In the future we shall contribute to the common usage of pediatric cardiology by means of the outstanding technological advances of receiver coils and other specialized applications of pediatric cardiac MRI.

Keywords：Pediatric cardiac MRI, Pediatric’s surface coil, 3Dvolume data,Functional imaging, Flow velocity analysis