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Abstract #0157

Comparison of Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion from Self-Gated and Gated Acquisitions

Edward DiBella1, Srikant K. Iyer1, Ganesh Adluru1, Brian Martin1, Devavrat Likhite1, Chris J. McGann2, Alexis Harrison2

1UCAIR/Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 2Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI for characterizing perfusion in the myocardium is becoming a more robust and useful clinical tool. Methods for ungated acquisitions and retrospective self-gating were recently introduced. Such ungated imaging could be valuable whenever ECG-gating is poor, and in particular in patients with arrhythmias. Here we compare a self-gated perfusion acquisition directly to a gated acquisition in subjects in sinus rhythm, to determine how well quantitative perfusion values in ml/min/g can be obtained with the self-gated approach.

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