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Abstract #0119

A Joint Prospective-Retrospective Respiratory Navigator for Contrast Enhanced Whole-Heart Coronary MRI

Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari1, Tamer Basha1, Mehmet Akakaya1, Alan OConnor1, Lois Goepfert1, Kraig V. Kissinger1, Beth Goddu1, Doug Stanton2, Warren J. Manning1, Reza Nezafat1

1Dept. of Medicine (Cardiovascular Div.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical Sch., Boston, MA, USA; 2Philips Research


We have evaluated a joint prospective-retrospective respiratory motion compensation technique for coronary MRI. Studies in respiratory motion phantom and in vivo experiments were used to validate the proposed method.