Anthony N. Price1, Kenneth K. Cheung1, Shaihan J. Malik2, Mark F. Lythgoe1
1Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK; 2Imaging Sciences Department, Hammersmith Hospital Campus , Imperial College London, London, UK
In recent years parallel imaging and dynamic undersampling have become routinely available in clinical cardiac MRI. However, these techniques have been slow to translate to the pre-clinical setting. In this abstract we present a full implementation and quantitative evaluation of up to 5x dynamically undersampled data using a four-channel array coil on a 9.4T experimental system. k-t SENSE reconstruction can provide an accurate estimation of LV ejection fraction in rats, using complete short axis cine data of 0.2 x 0.2 x 1mm resolution taking only 2-3 minutes to acquire.
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