A number of quantitative T1 mapping techniques have been developed for assessing myocardial pathologies. Inversion recovery (IR) techniques such as MOLLI are widely used due to higher precision and better reproducibility but tend to underestimate T1 values. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of new, free-breathing, variable flip angle (VFA), 3D radial and 3D hybrid-radial-Cartesian IR techniques accelerated using radial k-space undersampling for myocardial T1 quantification. Our initial results show promise and suggest that the proposed 3D T1 mapping techniques are not sensitive to B1 variations.
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