Swati Gupta1, Xiangzhi Zhou2,
Xiaoming Bi3, Saurabh Shah3, Sven Zuehlsdorff3,
Andrew Larson2, Debiao Li2, Rohan Dharmakumar2
1Department of Biomedical Engineeering,
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 2Department
of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 3Siemens
Medical Solutions, Chicago, IL, United States
Myocardial
edema imaging with bSSFP approaches have been recently demonstrated. In this
work, we investigated the utility of respiratory self-gated (RSG) 2D cine
bSSFP for acquiring free-breathing myocardial edema images using a canine
model subjected to ischemia-reperfusion injury. Early results show that RSG
bSSFP imaging is capable of generating edema contrast similar to breath-held
bSSFP imaging.