MR-guided vascular interventions allow for direct injection of contrast agent (CA) through a catheter, which can be used for perfusion measurements of the target tissue, for example, the myocardium in MR-guided coronary catheterizations. For a quantitative perfusion measurement an arterial input function (AIF) is required that describes the CA concentration-time curve in the artery. In this work we show initial results of two methods to determine the AIF during an intervention and demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the AIF in intra-arterial CA injections based on the signal of an active guiding catheter.
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