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Abstract #2624

Bloch Equation Simulation with Slice Profile Correction (BLESSPC) T1 Estimation- Enabling accurate and precise myocardial T1 mapping at 3.0T using the FLASH-readout based MOLLI sequence

Jiaxin Shao 1 , Stanislas Rapacchi 1 , Kim-Lien Nguyen 1,2 , and Peng Hu 1,3

1 Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2 Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Calif, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3 Biomedical Physics Inter-Departmental Graduate Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We developed the FLASH-MOLLI sequence using proposed Bloch equation simulation with slice profile correction (BLESSPC) for T1 estimation. The FLASH-MOLLI sequence was evaluated against the bSSFP-MOLLI sequence using phantom study, and in 10 healthy volunteers at 3.0T. Phantom results show that the FLASH-MOLLI with BLESSPC fitting reduced average T1 estimation error from -58.550.6ms by bSSFP-MOLLI to -1.515.3ms for T1s from 440ms-1774ms and HRs from 40bpm-100bpm. The native myocardial T1 values by FLASH-MOLLI were significantly higher than that by bSSFP-MOLLI by 99.031.7ms (1454.923.6ms vs. 1355.823.9ms, p<0.001) at heart rates of 62.59.9 bpm, and FLASH-MOLLI is less sensitive to off-resonance artifacts.

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