Michael Salerno1, Christopher M. Kramer2,
Christopher Sica3, Craig H. Meyer4
1Department of Medicine, Cardiology,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; 2Department
of Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 3Biomedical
Engineering, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; 4Biomedical
Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Optimized
Spiral Pulse Sequences may have advantages for clinical myocardial perfusion
imaging. The goal of this project was to evaluate how variations in the
readout duration per interleaf, number of spiral interleaves, and spatial
resolution affect the image quality and artifacts for first-pass myocardial
perfusion imaging using spiral trajectories in human subjects.