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Abstract #2505

Post-Contrast Inversion Recovery Self-Navigated 3D Whole-Heart MRI for Combined Coronary Tree and Scar Tissue Visualization

Davide Piccini 1,2 , Simone Coppo 2 , Tobias Rutz 3 , Giulia Ginami 2 , Jean-Baptiste Ledoux 4 , Mathieu Gerber 4 , Juerg Schwitter 3 , and Matthias Stuber 2

1 Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare IM BM PI, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 Department of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) / Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 Division of Cardiology and Cardiac MR Center, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

A respiratory self-navigated 3D whole-heart technique was extended to inversion-recovery for 3D late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging and integrated into a dedicated protocol where the same sequence was acquired also pre-contrast and during slow infusion, with T2 preparation, for comparison. Signal and contrast to noise, as well as vessel length and sharpness increased in the slow infusion datasets, while the 3D LGE datasets allow for combined coronary tree and scar tissue visualization in one single acquisition. The 3D LGE dataset can also be reformatted for color-coded 3D visualization and might be useful for planning ablation as part of re-synchronization procedures.

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