Abstract #4573

Whole-Heart Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion with Spiral Pulse Sequences

Yang Yang¹, Sujith Kuruvilla², Christopher Kramer²,³, Craig Meyer¹,³, Michael Salerno²,³

¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; ²Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; ³Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

We demonstrated the successful application of whole ventricular coverage absolute quantitative first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging using accelerated spirals in healthy volunteers. This sequence can acquire 8 short axis slices in 480ms enabling full ventricular coverage at heart rates up to 125 BPM.