Hlne Feliciano1,
2, Davide Piccini3, 4, Joost P. A. Kuijer5,
Matthias Stuber1, 2
1Department
of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL),
Lausanne, Switzerland; 2Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM),
Lausanne, Switzerland; 3Department of Radiology, University Hospital
(CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) / Center for Biomedical Imaging
(CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland; 4Advanced Clinical Imaging
Technology, Siemens Healthcare IM S AW, Lausanne, Switzerland; 5Dept.
Physics and Medical Technology, ICaR-VU, VU University Medical Center,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
In this work, slice following capabilities were added to a pre-existing CSPAMM bSSFP tagging sequence and tested on a 3T clinical scanner. Validation in static and moving phantoms plus SNR and tag-CNR comparisons was performed. Subsequently, and because of systolic base-to-apex long axis shortening in vivo, we tested the hypothesis that there exist significant differences in quantitative short axis strain and rotation measurements between slice-followed and non-slice-followed CSPAMM acquisitions.