Sathya Vijayakumar1, Eugene G. Kholmovski1,
Nassir F. Marrouche2
1UCAIR, Department of Radiology,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 2Department
of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
While
imaging the left atrial wall to assess procedure outcome of RF ablation
therapy in the heart, it is necessary to have optimal contrast between scar
and blood and scar and normal myocardium. In this work, we present a
technique to get optimal contrast between scar and both blood and myocardium
using phase sensitive reconstruction and an appropriate choice of inversion
time TI.