Jan Paul1, Stefan Wundrak1, Peter Bernhardt1, Wolfgang Rottbauer1, and Volker Rasche1
Cartesian
Tissue Phase Mapping (TPM) usually necessitates respiratory navigators or other
means of motion selection/correction to avoid ghosting artifacts. In radial MRI,
however, motion artifacts result in image blurring rather than ghosting, which
might allow using all respiratory states for reconstruction. The aim of this
study is to investigate the influence of respiratory motion on velocities
obtained from radial Tissue Phase Mapping MRI. Only small biases towards reduced
velocity peaks were found in ungated compared to motion-compensated reconstructions.
Overall velocity agreement of ungated data was very high compared to gated
reconstructions.