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Abstract #1146

Quantitative Assessment of the Myocardial Perfusion Reserve at 3.0T Comparison of SR-TrueFISP and SR-TurboFLASH

Stefan Weber1, 2, Karl-Friedrich Kreitner2, Laura Maria Schreiber1, 2

1Section of Medical Physics, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; 2Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

The aim of this study was to compare at 3.0T SR-TrueFISP and SR-TurboFLASH pulse sequences for semi-quantitative and absolutequantitative assessment of the myocardial perfusion reserve. No differences were found in SNR and CNR between both pulse sequences. However, SR-TrueFISP yielded superior reproducibility than SR-TurboFLASH as well as absolutequantification using the MMID4 model yielded lower intraobservervariability than the semiquantitative method.

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