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Abstract #0598

Self-Gating Reconstructions of Motion & Perfusion for Free-Breathing T1-Weighted DCE-MRI of the Thorax Using 3D Stack-Of-Stars GRE Imaging

MAGNA25R. Grimm1, K. T. Block2, J. Hutter1, C. Forman1, C. Hintze3, B. Kiefer4, J. Hornegger1

1Pattern Recognition Lab, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 2Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 3German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; 4MR Application & Workflow Development, Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany

Radial sampling of k-space allows the computation of an intrinsic self-gating signal for free-breathing MRI examinations of the thorax.

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