Jinnan Wang1, Suzanne Gerretsen2, Jeffrey H. Maki1, Daniel Herzka3, Baocheng Chu1, Vasily L. Yarnykh1, Chun Yuan1, Tim Leiner2
1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 2Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; 3School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
The coronary arteries are a frequent site for atherosclerosic disease. The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of a recently proposed black-blood technique, improved motion-sensitized driven equilibrium (iMSDE) sequence, for time-efficient in vivo human coronary vessel wall imaging.