Li Feng1,2, Jian Xu3,4, Daniel
Kim2,
1Sackler Institute of
Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New
York, NY, United States; 2Department of Radiology, New York
University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States; 3Siemens
Medical Solutions USA; 4Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn,
NY, United States
First-pass myocardial perfusion MRI is a promising technique for assessing ischemic heart diseases. 3D whole-heart coverage per heartbeat is desirable to overcome the volumetric coverage limitations of multislice 2D techniques. Highly accelerated imaging is required to reduce the long acquisition time per heartbeat of 3D perfusion MRI scans. In this work, we combine compressed sensing, parallel imaging and partial Fourier imaging to enable previously inaccessible accelerations. We demonstrate feasibility of whole-heart 3D perfusion MRI with 24-fold acceleration using the combined approach.
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