Bright- and black-blood MRI sequences provide complementary information on anatomical assessment for patients with Congenital Heart Disease(CHD).A free-breathing 3D whole-heart sequence (MTC-BOOST) has been recently proposed for simultaneous bright and black-blood high quality depiction of cardiac and vascular structures waiving the need for contrast agent injection. In this study, we clinically validated this sequence in a cohort of 35 patients with CHD against the conventional T2-prep bSSFP sequence. Quantitative and qualitative image quality assessment demonstrates that MTC-BOOST enhances pulmonary venous depiction, mitigates flow-related artefacts and has comparable image quality for intracardiac and vascular structures, promising potential integration into clinical workflow.
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