MRI-guided cardiac catheterisation procedures are commonly performed using balloon wedge catheters which are currently manually tracked. Furthermore, these procedures require frequent manual adjustment of the slice positioning during catheter navigation. In this study, we sought to develop a novel acquisition and reconstruction framework that enables automatic tracking of a gadolinium-filled balloon wedge catheter using (a) real-time partial saturation with increased spatial coverage, (b) automatic image-based estimation of the catheter balloon position, and (c) real-time slice tracking. The proposed framework is demonstrated during an MRI-guided cardiac catheterisation experiment in a 3D printed heart phantom.
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