Saurabh Shah1, Xiaoming Bi1,
Diego Hernando2, Peter Weale1, Sven Zuehlsdorff1,
Sonia Nielles-Vallespin3, Peter Kellman4
1Siemens Healthcare, Chicago, IL,
United States; 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL, United States; 3Royal Brompton And Harefield NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 4National Institutes of
Health / NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, United States
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3D free-breathing navigator-gated multi-interleaved multi-echo GRE sequence
is implemented with VARPRO fat-water separation and utilized in targeted
acquisition of coronary arteries at 3T. This approach achieves reliable
fat-suppression across field-of-view and provides clear depiction of
coronaries for enhanced visualization.