Acceleration of tissue phase mapping with sensitivity encoding at 3T

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Research

Volker Rasche¹  Axel Bornstedt¹  Wolfgang Rottbauer¹  Anja Lutz¹  G Ulrich Nienhaus²  Patrick Etyngier³  Robert Manzke⁴ 

[1] Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Medisys Research Lab, Philips Healthcare, Suresnes, France;Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, USA;

关键词: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance;    Acceleration Factor;    Sense Acceleration;    Myocardial Velocity;    View Sharing;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1532-429X-13-59

 received in 2011-03-15, accepted in 2011-10-12,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe objective of this study was to investigate the impact of sensitivity encoding on the quantitative assessment of cardiac motion in black blood cine tissue phase mapping (TPM) sequences. Up to now whole volume coverage of the heart is still limited by the long acquisition times. Therefore, a significant increase in imaging speed without deterioration of quantitative motion information is indispensable.Methods20 volunteers were enrolled in this study. Each volunteer underwent myocardial short-axis TPM scans with different SENSE acceleration factors. The influence of SENSE acceleration on the measured motion curves was investigated.ResultsIt is demonstrated that all TPM sequences with SENSE acceleration have only minimum influence on the motion curves. Even with a SENSE factor of four, the decrease in the amplitude of the motion curve was less than 3%. No significant difference was observed for the global correlation coefficient and deviation between the motion curves obtained by the reproducibility and the SENSE accelerated measurements.ConclusionsIt is feasible to accelerate myocardial TPM measurements with SENSE factors up to 4 without losing substantial information of the motion pattern.

【 授权许可】

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