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Abstract #3956

Evaluation of Parallel Reconstruction Techniques for First-Pass Perfusion Imaging Using Spiral Trajectories

Yang Yang1, Xiao Chen1, Xue Feng1, Meihan Wang1, Frederick Epstein1, 2, Craig Meyer1, 2, Micheal Salerno, 23

1Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; 2Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; 3Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States


We evaluate the performance of the spiral PILS, SPIRiT and CS reconstruction techniques for the spiral first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging at acceleration factor 2 and 4 by downsampling the full acquired clinical data. We find that at lower acceleration factor, all the techniques work well while at the higher acceleration rate, images reconstructed by CS with finite-difference in time have similar SNR and image quality to the fully sampled images and may have a SNR advantage compared to other parallel imaging techniques.