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Abstract #0333

Free-running contrast-enhanced ultra-short TE (UTE) for cardiac and respiratory motion-resolved flow artifact-free 5D whole-heart MRI

Giulia M.C. Rossi1, Ludovica Romanin1,2, Mariana B.L. Falcão1, Bastien Milani1, Davide Piccini1,2, Jérôme Yerly1,3, Jürg Schwitter4,5,6, Milan Prša7, Tobias Rutz8, Estelle Tenisch1, Matthias Stuber1,3, and Christopher W. Roy1
1Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology (ACIT), Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4Division of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, 5Director CMR-Center, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, 6Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 7Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Woman-Mother-Child Department, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 8Service of Cardiology, Heart and Vessel Department, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Synopsis

Free-running whole-heart MRI can suffer from flow artifacts. Despite the efficiency of 3D radial UTE in minimizing the latter, its integration as a free-running sequence has so far been challenging due to poor-quality self-gating, which has necessitated an inefficient dual-echo approach. In this work we show that self-gating signals from a single-echo ferumoxytol-enhanced free-running 3D radial UTE sequence are comparable to the dual-echo approach, allowing to significantly improve scanning efficiency and produce dynamic images that are free from flow artifacts.

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