Abstract #0749

High Spatial & Temporal Resolution Cardiac Imaging Reconstructed from Real-Time Golden Angle Radial Acquisitions using Motion Correction & Parallel Imaging

Michael Schacht Hansen¹, Thomas Sangild Srensen², Peter Kellman¹

¹National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; ²Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

A method for iterative reconstruction of high spatial and temporal resolution images from free breathing real-time acquisitions is presented. The golden angle radial acquisition scheme is used to enable reconstruction of low temporal resolution images, and respiration deformation maps are obtained from these images using non-rigid registration. The reconstruction includes the deformation maps into the encoding equations and thus compensates for the motion as part of the reconstruction. The method was successfully applied in five healthy volunteers producing high quality, retrospectively gated cardiac cine images during free breathing.