High spatial and temporal resolution cardiac cine MRI from retrospective reconstruction of data acquired in real time using motion correction and resorting
✍ Scribed by Peter Kellman; Christophe Chefd'hotel; Christine H. Lorenz; Christine Mancini; Andrew E. Arai; Elliot R. McVeigh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 871 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Cine MRI is used for assessing cardiac function and flow and is typically based on a breath‐held, segmented data acquisition. Breath holding is particularly difficult for patients with congestive heart failure or in pediatric cases. Real‐time imaging may be used without breath holding or ECG triggering. However, despite the use of rapid imaging sequences and accelerated parallel imaging, real‐time imaging typically has compromised spatial and temporal resolution compared with gated, segmented breath‐held studies. A new method is proposed that produces a cardiac cine across the full cycle, with both high spatial and temporal resolution from a retrospective reconstruction of data acquired over multiple heartbeats during free breathing. The proposed method was compared with conventional cine images in 10 subjects. The resultant image quality for the proposed method (4.2 ± 0.4) without breath holding or gating was comparable to the conventional cine (4.4 ± 0.5) on a five‐point scale (P = n.s.). Motion‐corrected averaging of real‐time acquired cardiac images provides a means of attaining high‐quality cine images with many of the benefits of real‐time imaging, such as free‐breathing acquisition and tolerance to arrhythmias. Magn Reson Med, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.