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Abstract #2598

Combination of T2-Magnetization Preparation and Slice Interleaved Inversion Recovery for Improved Motion Correction of Myocardial Extra-cellular Volume Mapping using Spoiled Gradient Echo Imaging

Sbastien Roujol 1 , Tamer A. Basha 1 , Jihye Jang 1 , Kraig V. Kissinger 1 , Beth Goddu 1 , Sophie Berg 1 , Warren J. Manning 1,2 , and Reza Nezafat 1

1 Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV) mapping requires co-registration of native and post-contrast T1 maps, generally acquired with a b-SSFP readout. However the b-SSFP signal is susceptible to B0 field inhomogeneity, T2 dependent, and sensitive to magnetization transfer. To overcome these limitations, slice interleaved inversion recovery spoiled gradient echo (GRE) imaging has been recently proposed for T1 mapping. However, the co-registration of native and post-contrast GRE T1 scans is challenging since short inversion time (TI) images have very different intensity/contrast between pre/post-contrast imaging and long TI images have low blood/myocardium contrast. In this study, we sought to develop and evaluate a combined T2-magnetization preparation imaging and slice interleaved inversion recovery spoiled gradient echo imaging to facilitate the co-registration process and improve ECV mapping.

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