Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using CAIPIRINHA Accelerated Multi-Slice Saturation Recovery TrueFISP

Daniel Stb¹, Christian Oliver Ritter¹, Andreas Weng¹, Meinrad Joachim Beer¹, Marcel Gutberlet¹, Dietbert Hahn¹, Herbert Kstler¹

In this study a new technique for myocardial perfusion imaging was developed providing a full coverage of the heart and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the same time. A saturation recovery TrueFISP sequence providing high intrinsic SNR was combined with CAIPIRINHA accelerated multi-slice imaging exciting two slices simultaneously. Myocardial perfusion imaging was performed in 12 slices of the human heart during one first-pass experiment. The presented technique was considered to be also suitable for myocardial blood-flow quantification.