Abstract #1260

Reduction of Pulmonary Vein Blood Inflow Artifact in Free Breathing Left Atrial Late Gadolinium Enhancement MRI

Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari¹, Dana C. Peters¹, Jouke Smink², Lois Goepfert¹, Kraig V. Kissinger¹, Beth Goddu¹, Thomas H. Hauser¹, Mark E. Josephson¹, Warren J. Manning¹, Reza Nezafat¹

¹Dept. of Medicine (Cardiovascular Div.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical Sch., Boston, MA, United States; ²Philips Healthcare, Netherlands

Conventional navigator gated imaging sequence for left atrial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) results in blood enhancement artifact. In this study, we investigated a modified free-breathing LGE sequence that minimizes this artifact.