Peter Kellman1, Diego Hernando2,
Saurabh Shah3, Christophe Chefd'hotel4, Z-P Liang2,
Andrew E. Arai1
1National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD, United States; 2University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,
United States; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, IL, United
States; 4Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States
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rapid fat/water separated imaging protocol has been developed for
free-breathing cardiac applications for cases where patients have difficulty
breath-holding or have significant arrhythmias. The method combines a 2 echo
GRE acquisition and parallel imaging, and may be used with repeated
measurements and motion corrected averaging to further improve image quality.
The method has been applied to both pre-contrast and late enhancement
imaging.