Abstract #3096

Ultrafast Cardiac Balanced Inversion Recovery with Interleaved Acquisition (UF-CABIRIA) for improved simultaneous T1 and T2 quantification of the heart at 3T.

Francesco Santini^1,2, Grzegorz Bauman^1,2, and Oliver Bieri^1,2

¹Division of Radiological Physics, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

CABIRIA is a method for the simultaneous quantification of T1 and T2 values of the myocardium. As other T1-quantification sequences, it relies on a bSSFP readout, and it is thus susceptible to off-resonance effects. In this work, we show an improvement over the CABIRIA method that reduces the TR and therefore increases the robustness towards field inhomogeneities. This method can potentially be extended to other quantification techniques.

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