Motion-compensated spin-echo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) sequences suffer from signal loss if the motion pattern has higher-order motion terms than the motion compensation model of the encoding gradients. Particularly cardiac strain, ventricular flow and atrial contraction render diffusion imaging in diastole challenging. It is shown that a suitable trigger delay in the diastolic phase can be identified by taking into account ventricular flow, strain and diffusion-weighted data at several time points in diastole. This knowledge aids towards the development of spin-echo-based cDTI sequences to study dynamic myofiber changes between systole and diastole.
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