Wen Li1,2, Mark Griswold1,3, Xin
Yu1,3
1Biomedical Engineering
Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 2Case
Center for Imaging Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,
United States; 3Radiology Department, Case Western Reserve
University
A model-based compressed sensing method was developed for fast cardiac T1 mapping (<1.5 min) in small animals. Simulation and MRI studies on phantom and in vivo mouse heart were performed to evaluate the acceleration capability under various experimental conditions using different reconstruction approaches.