Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 54, Issue 4, Pages 833-840Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20627
Keywords
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); coronary MRA; parallel MRI; rapid imaging; SSFP; fat suppression
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL38698] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [EB002623] Funding Source: Medline
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Coronary artery data acquisition with steady-state free precession (SSFP) is typically performed in a single frame in mid-diastole with a spectrally selective pulse to suppress epicardial fat signal. Data are acquired while the signal approaches steady state, which may lead to artifacts from the SSFP transient response. To avoid sensitivity to cardiac motion, an accurate trigger delay and data acquisition window must be determined. Cine data acquisition is an alternative approach for resolving these limitations. However, it is challenging to use conventional fat saturation with cine imaging because it interrupts the steady-state condition. The purpose of this study was to develop a 4D coronary artery imaging technique, termed cine angiography with phase-sensitive fat suppression (CAPS), that would result in high temporal and spatial resolution simultaneously. A 3D radial stacked k-space was acquired over the entire cardiac cycle and then interleaved with a sliding window. Sensitivity-encoded (SENSE) reconstruction with rescaling was developed to reduce streak artifact and noise. Phase-sensitive SSFP was employed for fat suppression using phase detection. Experimental studies were performed on volunteers. The proposed technique provides high-resolution coronary artery imaging for all cardiac phases, and allows multiple images at mid-diastole to be averaged, thus enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and vessel delineation.
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