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Abstract #0987

High resolution whole-heart coverage multiband first-pass myocardial perfusion MRI using the slice-L+S reconstruction method

Changyu Sun1, Kenneth C. Bilchick2, Daniel Weller3, Michael Salerno1,2,4, and Frederick H. Epstein1,4
1Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, 2Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, 4Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

k-t undersampled multiband first-pass perfusion imaging provides in-plane and through-plane acceleration and potentially enables high spatial resolution and whole-heart coverage. Our slice-L+S work splits MB data consistency and enforcing L+S into two subproblems wherein MB data, in- and through-plane coil information and L+S properties of slices are systematically utilized. Here we compare slice-L+S to single-band L+S and slice-GRAPPA followed sequentially by L+S (seq-SG-L+S) using 3 retrospectively undersampled datasets. High resolution nine-slice data with multiband factor-3 and rate-3 undersampling were prospectively acquired in 4 patients. Slice-L+S showed better image quality demonstrated by quantitative results and scores from two cardiologists.

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