Abstract #0119

A Joint Prospective-Retrospective Respiratory Navigator for Contrast Enhanced Whole-Heart Coronary MRI

Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari¹, Tamer Basha¹, Mehmet Akakaya¹, Alan OConnor¹, Lois Goepfert¹, Kraig V. Kissinger¹, Beth Goddu¹, Doug Stanton², Warren J. Manning¹, Reza Nezafat¹

¹Dept. of Medicine (Cardiovascular Div.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical Sch., Boston, MA, USA; ²Philips Research

We have evaluated a joint prospective-retrospective respiratory motion compensation technique for coronary MRI. Studies in respiratory motion phantom and in vivo experiments were used to validate the proposed method.