Abstract #3296

Novel Real-Time PC-MRI Technique for Accurate Single Heartbeat Evaluation of Pulmonary-to-Systemic Flow Ratios using an Interleaved Two-Slice Acquisition Scheme

Hung-Yu Lin^1,2, Scott B. King¹, Yu Ding³, Davinder S. Jassal², Patricia Gervai¹, Eilean McKenzie-Matwiy¹, Orlando P. Simonetti³, Boguslaw Tomanek¹, Ganghong Tian¹

¹Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ³Internal Medicine, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

This study is to develop and demonstrate a novel phase-contrast shared velocity encoding technique using an interleaved two-slice acquisition scheme for accurate single heartbeat evaluation of pulmonary-to-systemic flow ratio (Qp/Qs).