High-resolution whole-heart contrast-enhanced coronary MRA in 5 minutes with self-navigation and 100% gating efficiency
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Background Contrast-enhanced (CE) whole-heart coronary MRA is a promising technique for CAD detection [1]. However, the current imaging time is relatively long and variable, and the spatial resolution is limited. The aim of this work is to develop and evaluate a 3D projection reconstruction (3DPR) based CE coronary MRA technique that achieves (1.0 mm) spatial resolution and 5-minute scan time, which has been previously validated on non-contrast coronary MRA [2]. Similar to the previous work, we compare the apparent SNR of two undersampling levels with 10,000 and 20,000 radial projections to explore the impact of undersampling on image quality in the context of CE imaging.
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