Abstract #1239

A New Approach for Single Breath-Hold Whole Heart Coronary MRA Using Highly-Accelerated Parallel Imaging with a 32-Element Coil Array

Jian Xu^1,2, Daniel Kim³, Ricardo Otazo³, Sven Zuehlsdorff⁴, Xiaoming Bi⁴, Bernd Stoeckel¹, Daniel Sodickson³

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., New York, NY, United States; ²PolyTechnic Institute of NYU, New York, NY, United States; ³Center for Biomedical Imaging,Department of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Chicago, NY, United States

To develop a new approach for high resolution 3D whole heart coronary MRA in a single breath-hold, which offers the potential to enhance imaging efficiency and spatial resolution without apparent misregistration between external RF coil calibration scan and imaging scan.