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The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

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01-08-2012 | Original Paper

Self-gated PROPELLER-encoded cine cardiac imaging

Authors: Chi-Chung Wang, Teng-Yi Huang

Published in: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging | Issue 6/2012

Abstract

This study uses the k-space center over-sampling property of PROPELLER encoding to detect cardiac and respiratory motion using raw k-space data. Using the motion information, cine cardiac imaging is self-gated. The data acquisition process requires neither electrocardiography triggering nor patient breath-holding. Using physiology motion information, this post-processing method rearranges the k-space data into groups corresponding to cardiac and respiratory phases. The PROPELLER blades of the same groups are combined to produce cine high-resolution images. This approach reduces the potential discrepancy of the k-space data and the motion-related artifacts in the reconstructed image because all blades in a group are acquired at consistent cardiac and respiratory phases. The study concludes that self-gated cine cardiac imaging is feasible using PROPELLER encoding. It is a potentially practical tool for cine cardiac imaging.

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Title: Self-gated PROPELLER-encoded cine cardiac imaging
Authors: Chi-Chung Wang
Teng-Yi Huang
Publication date: 01-08-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging / Issue 6/2012
Print ISSN: 1569-5794
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-011-9969-0

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