1Department
of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, United States; 2Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, University
Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
We propose magnetization preparation which combines saturation and inversion pulses, for improved Late Gadolinium enhancement imaging and T1 mapping in the presence of arrhythmia and heart rate variability. A saturation pulse right after the detection of the R-wave erases the magnetization history and is followed by an inversion time to enhance T1-weighted contrast.