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Abstract #0662

Contrast-Enhanced Whole-Heart Coronary MRA in 5 Minutes Using Radial EPI

Himanshu Bhat1, Qi Yang2, Sven Zuehlsdorff3, Debiao Li1

1Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 2Radiology, Capital Medical University, Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China; 3Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Chicago, IL, United States


Whole-heart coronary MRA is challenging due to the long data acquisition time on the order of 8-12 minutes. The purpose of this work was to optimize a radial EPI technique for contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary MRA, with the goal of combining the scan efficiency of EPI with the motion insensitivity of radial sampling.