This work proposes a technique named RACE-GRASP (Respiratory-weighted and Aortic Contrast Enhancement guided Golden-angle RAdial Sparse Parallel imaging) for robust free-breathing DCE-MRI of the liver. First, the aortic contrast enhancement curve is automatically detected from continuously acquired data and is used to guide k-space sorting to ensure precise capture of desired contrast-enhancement phases. Second, k-space data of each contrast phase are binned into different respiratory motion states, and each motion bin is weighted differently during image reconstruction to reduce motion blurring. The performance of RACE-GRASP was demonstrated in 5 healthy volunteers and was compared with conventional GRASP.
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