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Abstract #3645

Respiratory Self-Gated 2D Cine Balanced SSFP Myocardial Edema Imaging: Preliminary Study in Canines

Swati Gupta1, Xiangzhi Zhou2, Xiaoming Bi3, Saurabh Shah3, Sven Zuehlsdorff3, Andrew Larson2, Debiao Li2, Rohan Dharmakumar2

1Department of Biomedical Engineeering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 2Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, IL, United States


Myocardial edema imaging with bSSFP approaches have been recently demonstrated. In this work, we investigated the utility of respiratory self-gated (RSG) 2D cine bSSFP for acquiring free-breathing myocardial edema images using a canine model subjected to ischemia-reperfusion injury. Early results show that RSG bSSFP imaging is capable of generating edema contrast similar to breath-held bSSFP imaging.