Abstract #3934
            Myocardial perfusion imaging with an interleaved multi-slice acquisition for steady-state readout without saturation preparation or gating
                      Haonan Wang                     1                    , Neal Kepler Bangerter                     1,2                    , 						Ganesh Adluru                     2                    , Meredith Ireene Taylor                     1                    , 						and Edward V.R DiBella                     2          
            
            1
           
           Department of Electrical & Computer 
						Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United 
						States,
           
            2
           
           Utah 
						Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of 
						Utah, UT, United States
          
            
          First-pass myocardial perfusion imaging is a powerful 
						method for characterizing ischemic heart disease. 
						Standard methods use saturation preparation and an ECG 
						trigger. A new ungated acquisition with no saturation 
						preparation could be used to acquire steady-state 
						spoiled gradient echo (SPGR) images. Here, readouts from 
						multiple (three) slices are interleaved in order to keep 
						the multiple slices at steady-state and increase the 
						effective TR. Simulations, phantoms, and human data are 
						used to compare the interleaved acquisition to a 
						conventional saturation recovery sequence both in radial 
						and Cartesian trajectories.
         
				
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