Black blood imaging is helpful in cardiovascular evaluation, but is challenging due to its dependence on through-plane blood flow. We explored ferumoxytol-enhanced black-blood Half-Fourier Acquisition Single-shot Turbo Spin-echo (HASTE) imaging for cardiovascular morphologic evaluation and compared its effectiveness with pre-contrast double inversion (DIR) HASTE. Post-ferumoxytol HASTE showed complete and homogeneous blood suppression and better qualitative image scores (all, p<0.001) for all cardiovascular regions. The technique holds promise for confident definition of thrombus or plaque, independently of blood flow.
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