Jennifer Keegan1,
Peter Drivas2, David N. Firmin1, 3
1Cardiovascular
Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London,
United Kingdom; 2Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal
Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 3Imperial College,
London, United Kingdom
Navigator-gated 3D late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging demonstrates the degree and distribution of atrial scarring both before and after RF ablation of atrial fibrillation. An artefact originating from the slice-selective navigator-restore pulse is frequently present in the right pulmonary veins, obscuring the vein and atrial walls and making quantification of enhancement difficult. We describe a simple sequence modification to remove this artefact and demonstrate its application in 9 patients.