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Abstract #0183

Modified Wideband 3D Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) MRI for Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices

Shams Rashid 1 , Stanislas Rapacchi 1 , Kalyanam Shivkumar 1,2 , Adam Plotnik 1 , J. Paul Finn 1,3 , and Peng Hu 1,3

1 Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2 UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3 Biomedical Physics Inter-Departmental Graduate Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We have modified a 3D LGE sequence for LGE cardiac MRI of patients with implanted cardiac devices by implementing a wideband inversion pulse and increasing the RF excitation pulse bandwidth. We show reduced hyper-intensity artifacts due to the wideband inversion pulse. We also show that the conventional 3D LGE sequence produces artifacts due to slab profile distortion, which are reduced by increasing the bandwidth of the RF excitation pulse. We present results from phantom, volunteer and patient studies.

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