Moritz Wagner1,2,
Yutaka Natsuaki2,3, Bernd Hamm4, Gerhard Laub2,3,
Paul Finn2
1Radiology,
Charite - University Hospital, Berlin, Germany; 2Department of
Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 3Siemens Healthcare, USA; 4Radiology,
Charite - University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
Our study presents a novel ECG gated first-pass CEMRA sequence which reads out central k-space data during the cardiac resting phase while the overall center of k-space was made to coincide with peak arterial enhancement. The improved data acquisition efficiency of the ECG-gated first-pass CEMRA allowed for high resolution imaging of the entire thorax. We report initial data of ECG-gated first-pass CEMRA in healthy volunteers and patients.