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Abstract #3152

Free-Breathing Self-Navigated Isotropic 3-D CINE Imaging of the Whole Heart using Adaptive Triggering and Retrospective Gating

Jens Wetzl1,2, Felix Lugauer1, Randall Kroeker3, Michaela Schmidt3, Andreas Maier1,2, and Christoph Forman3

1Pattern Recognition Lab, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 3Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

We present a method for free-breathing whole-heart 3-D CINE imaging based on adaptive triggering and retrospective gating and compare it to a previously published method using prospective triggering. We show that our method is simultaneously robust to heart-rate variability during the scan and able to cover the entire cardiac cycle, which is not the case for prospective triggering. A validation in 6 volunteers shows reduced end-diastolic volume bias compared to a gold-standard 2-D reference for our method. Image reconstruction is integrated into the scanner system and takes less than 3 minutes.

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