Abstract #0809
Combined free breathing, whole heart self-navigation and "pencil-beam" 2D-T 2 -Prep for coronary MRA
Andrew J Coristine 1,2 , Jrme Chaptinel 1,2 , Giulia Ginami 1,2 , Gabriele Bonanno 1,2 , Ruud B van Heeswijk 2 , Davide Piccini 3,4 , and Matthias Stuber 2
1
Department of Radiology, University Hospital
(CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, VD,
Switzerland,
2
CardioVascular
Magnetic Resonance (CVMR) research centre, Centre for
Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, VD, Switzerland,
3
Department
of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and Centre for
Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, VD, Switzerland,
4
Advanced
Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare IM BM
PI, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Self-navigation may be used to perform respiratory
motion correction in whole heart coronary MRA, improving
scan efficiency and ease of use when compared to
navigator-gated approaches. However, signal from the
chest wall complicates motion detection. Additionally,
streaking artefacts secondary to displacement correction
may be introduced. By incorporating a "pencil beam" 2D
RF pulse into a T
2
-Prep module, one may
create a "2D- T
2
-Prep" that combines T
2
-weighting
with the intrinsic spatial selectivity of a 2D pulse.
Here, we combined a 2D- T
2
-Prep with
self-navigation and present initial
in
vivo
results demonstrating that image quality is
improved through the use of a 2D- T
2
-Prep.
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