Abstract #3309

Comparison of Non-Invasive Self-Gated Flash (Intragate) with Prospectively Triggered Flash Cine Sequences for the Evaluation of Aortic Distensibility in Mice at 9.4 T.

Peter Fries¹, Roland Seidel¹, Andreas Mller¹, Gnther Schneider¹, Alexander Massmann¹, Arno Bcker¹

¹Clinic of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Saarland, Germany

To compare noninvasive self-gated (NSG)-Flash Intragate with prospectively triggered (PT)-Flash sequences for Cine imaging of the ascending aorta and the quantitative and qualitative assessment of aortic distensibility (AD) in mice at 9.4T.