Jeff A. Stainsby1, Venkat Ramanan2,
Glenn S. Slavin3, Graham A. Wright2
1Applied Science Laboratory, GE
Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Imaging Research,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Applied
Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Bethesda, MD, United States
T2-weighted
imaging in acute myocardial infarction has been suggested for detecting
regions of edema. The need to carefully account for variations in coil
sensitivity patterns has been noted with these techniques. An alternate
approach is to generate quantitative T2 maps. In this work we compare 3
different myocardial T2 mapping methods; multi-echo double-IR FSE (MEFSE),
segmented T2-prepared SSFP (T2pSSFP) similar to [1] and T2-prepared spiral
(SpiralT2) [2].