Current solutions for cardiac and respiratory motion resolved whole-heart MR imaging rely on ECG signal to synchronize data acquisition, sub-optimal strategies for fat suppression which interrupts steady-state magnetization, or contrast agent for anatomical differentiation. To address these hurdles, we present a self-gated framework with bSSFP contrast and binomial spectrally selective excitation pulse which suppresses epicardial fat signal without interrupting steady-state. When compared to existing sequences, the proposed framework reduces energy deposition and acquisition time while preserving or even improving the final image quality.
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