Abstract #0598

Self-Gating Reconstructions of Motion & Perfusion for Free-Breathing T1-Weighted DCE-MRI of the Thorax Using 3D Stack-Of-Stars GRE Imaging

R. Grimm¹, K. T. Block², J. Hutter¹, C. Forman¹, C. Hintze³, B. Kiefer⁴, J. Hornegger¹

¹Pattern Recognition Lab, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; ²Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; ³German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; ⁴MR Application & Workflow Development, Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany

Radial sampling of k-space allows the computation of an intrinsic self-gating signal for free-breathing MRI examinations of the thorax.