There is strong interest in characterising the cardiac microstructure using in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (CDTI). However, its use in larger clinical studies is often hampered by long scan times. We sought to rationalise the scan parameters needed for a clinically feasible CDTI protocol, by comparing carefully subsampled data against a 24-minute reference dataset. A design strategy was identified based on maximising the number of diffusion-weighting (DW) directions, subject to minimum SNR requirements. Feasibility of a 5-minute protocol was demonstrated where NRMSE(MD) = 5.2±0.2%, NRMSE(FA) = 12.8±0.2%, RMSE(HA) = 5.5±0.4°, RMSE(absE2A) = 15.7±1.9°.
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