Abstract #2619
            KWIC-Filtered Cardiac T 2 Mapping for Improved Precision and Faster Acquisition
                      Emeline Lugand                     1,2                    , Jrme Yerly                     1,2                    , 						Hlne Feliciano                     1,2                    , Jrme Chaptinel                     1,2                    , 						Matthias Stuber                     1,2                    , and Ruud B van Heeswijk                     1,2          
            
            1
           
           Department of Radiology, University Hospital 
						(CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, 
						Switzerland,
           
            2
           
           Center 
						for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland
          
            
          While cardiac T
          
           2
          
          mapping 
						through radial gradient echo imaging is highly robust to 
						motion, it also results in a relatively low 
						signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to the undersampling of 
						the k-space periphery and the resulting density 
						compensation function (DCF), which increases the weight 
						of the k-space periphery. An undersampled 
						k-space-weighted image contrast (KWIC) filter that 
						shares the k-space periphery between images was 
						therefore implemented to improve precision and to 
						shorten the acquisition time. The technique was tested 
						on phantoms and was successfully validated in healthy 
						volunteers.
         
				
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