Abstract #0371

Hu P, Meyer C

The goal of this study is to apply the partially parallel imaging with localized sensitivities (PILS) technique to spiral coronary artery imaging. We use spiral trajectories that are under-sampled between interleaves and a Fermi mask is applied to each coil image generated by gridding to suppress aliasing artifacts. The resulting coil images are combined using square-root of sum-of-squares to reconstruct the final image. Spiral coronary images are acquired and aliasing-free bright blood and black blood images are successfully reconstructed using spiral PILS. As a high SNR parallel imaging method, PILS is a valuable tool in breath-held coronary artery imaging.