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Abstract #3779

3D, Free Breathing Late Gadolinium Enhanced Myocardial Imaging with Retrospective TI Selection and Isotropic Resolution

Steven Kecskemeti1, Kevin Johnson1, Mark Schiebler1, Chris Francois1, Orhan Unal1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States

A free breathing, respiratory gated 3D radial inversion recovery acquisition with retrospective inversion time (TI) and isotropic resolution is used for late gadolinium enhanced imaging of myocardium.

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