Andrea Protti1, Alexander Alexander Sirker2, Tobias Schaeffter3, Ajay Shah2, Rene Botnar3
1Cardiovascular Division and Division of Imaging Sciences, Kings College London BHF Centre of Excellence, London, UK, UK; 2Cardiovascular Division, Kings College London BHF Centre of Excellence, London, UK; 3Division of Imaging Sciences, Kings College London BHF Centre of Excellence, London, UK
Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is usually performed by a T1-weighted sequence with an inversion recovery (IR) pre-pulse. Although the images achieve good contrast from areas of Gd agent uptake, there are several drawbacks such as absence of contrast between Gd infarcted areas and blood; image blurring due to ECG and respiration instability; anatomical information lost. In order to avoid such limitations, a cine-FLASH is suggested as a more reliable method of imaging LGE in mice 2 days after MI.