Self-Gated Fat-Suppressed Cardiac Cine MRI MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE Ingle, R. R., Santos, J. M., Overall, W. R., McConnell, M. V., Hu, B. S., Nishimura, D. G. 2015; 73 (5): 1764-1774

Abstract

To develop a self-gated alternating repetition time balanced steady-state free precession (ATR-SSFP) pulse sequence for fat-suppressed cardiac cine imaging.Cardiac gating is computed retrospectively using acquired magnetic resonance self-gating data, enabling cine imaging without the need for electrocardiogram (ECG) gating. Modification of the slice-select rephasing gradients of an ATR-SSFP sequence enables the acquisition of a one-dimensional self-gating readout during the unused short repetition time (TR). Self-gating readouts are acquired during every TR of segmented, breath-held cardiac scans. A template-matching algorithm is designed to compute cardiac trigger points from the self-gating signals, and these trigger points are used for retrospective cine reconstruction. The proposed approach is compared with ECG-gated ATR-SSFP and balanced steady-state free precession in 10 volunteers and five patients.The difference of ECG and self-gating trigger times has a variability of 13?±?11 ms (mean?±?SD). Qualitative reviewer scoring and ranking indicate no statistically significant differences (P?>?0.05) between self-gated and ECG-gated ATR-SSFP images. Quantitative blood-myocardial border sharpness is not significantly different among self-gated ATR-SSFP ( 0.61±0.15?mm?-1), ECG-gated ATR-SSFP ( 0.61±0.15?mm?-1), or conventional ECG-gated balanced steady-state free precession cine MRI ( 0.59±0.15?mm?-1).The proposed self-gated ATR-SSFP sequence enables fat-suppressed cardiac cine imaging at 1.5 T without the need for ECG gating and without decreasing the imaging efficiency of ATR-SSFP. Magn Reson Med, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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