Abstract #3921

hp-GRAPPA for Delayed Enhanced Imaging of the Left Atrium

Sathya Vijayakumar¹, Nathan Burgon², Feng Huang³, Eugene G. Kholmovski¹, Edward DiBella¹, Nassir F. Marrouche²

¹UCAIR, Dept. of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; ²Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; ³Advanced Concept Development, Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, FL, USA

In this work, we present the application of high pass GRAPPA (hp-GRAPPA) to speed up high resolution delayed enhancement imaging of the left atrium. Preliminary results indicate that this image reconstruction technique can reduce acquisition time with minimal loss in image quality or diagnostic properties of the image.