Tracking Abdominal Organ Motion in Real-time T2-weighted MRI with 2 Simultaneously Acquired Orthogonal Slices

Radiotherapy, cryoablation, and percutaneous needle biopsy procedures profit from MR-guidance with real-time lesion tracking. T2-weighted images often provide superior lesion contrast, but the temporal resolution of conventional T2-weighted sequences is insufficient for real-time MRI. Here, we present a fast, T2-weighted sequence Ortho-SSFP-Echo, which simultaneously acquires two orthogonal images, to track breathing induced kidney motion.