Abstract #3144

3D first-pass myocardial perfusion stack-of-stars imaging using balanced steady state free precession

Merlin J Fair^1,2, Peter D Gatehouse^1,2, Liyong Chen^3,4, Ricardo Wage², Edward VR DiBella⁵, and David N Firmin^1,2

¹NHLI, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ²NIHR Cardiovascular BRU, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, ⁴Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, CA, United States, ⁵UCAIR, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

A method for enabling a balanced steady-state free precession 3D stack-of-stars approach to whole-heart first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging is investigated. Consideration is made of the impact of potential off-resonance effects at 3T and sequence-based modifications to rectify this are examined. Demonstration of the feasibility of this approach is then performed in-vivo.

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