T2 mapping is a promising technique for the characterization of myocardial inflammation and oedema. We recently proposed a quantitative 3D whole-heart sequence (qBOOST-T2) which provides co-registered 3D high-resolution bright-blood and T2 map volumes from a single free-breathing scan. However, high-resolution qBOOST-T2 requires long scan times of ~10 min. Here we propose a joint Multi-Scale Variational Neural Network (jMS-VNN) to enable the acquisition of 3D high-resolution bright-blood and accurate T2 map volumes in ~3 mins, and their reconstruction in ~30s. The proposed jMS-VNN jointly reconstructs data from multiple contrasts and efficiently apply dictionary-based signal matching for fast T2 map generation.
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