Dual VENC Phase Contrast MRI for Simultaneous Assessment of Blood Flow and Cardiac Motion

Waltraud Brigitte Buchenberg¹, Michael Markl², Simon Bauer², Jelena Bock², Ramona Lorenz², Bernd A. Jung²

Methods to acquire the blood flow within the cardiovascular system or the myocardial motion have already been established. However, the simultaneous acquisition of this functional information requires two different velocity sensitivities (VENC) due to the different range of velocities. Therefore, a dual VENC phase contrast sequence was implemented allowing the acquisition of blood flow and cardiac motion in a single measurement and applied to five healthy volunteers.