3D myocardial T1 mapping using saturation recovery

• Published in: Journal of magnetic resonance imaging Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 218 - 227
• Main Authors: Nordio, Giovanna, Henningsson, Markus, Chiribiri, Amedeo, Villa, Adriana D.M., Schneider, Torben, Botnar, René M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nashville Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2017
• Subjects: accuracy; Breathing; Compensation; Diaphragms; Effectiveness; Gold; Heart; High resolution; Image acquisition; Imaging; In vivo methods and tests; Inversion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mapping; Motion compensation; MRI; precision; Recovery; Respiration; Saturation; saturation‐recovery; Shot; Standard deviation; T1 mapping; Xenografts

Purpose To propose a 3D quantitative high‐resolution T1 mapping technique, called 3D SASHA (saturation‐recovery single‐shot acquisition), which combines a saturation recovery pulse with 1D‐navigator‐based‐respiratory motion compensation to acquire the whole volume of the heart in free breathing. The...