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Abstract #3827

Compressed Sensing (CS) for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) MRI of Atherosclerosis: Preliminary Experience in a Rabbit Model of Disease

Claudia Calcagno1, Hadrien Dyvorne1, Ricardo Otazo2, Philip M. Robson1, Mark E. Lobatto1, Sarayu Ramachandran1, Venkatesh Mani1, Zahi A. Fayad1

1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States; 2New York University, New York, NY, United States

Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI of atherosclerosis is gaining increasing interest for the characterization of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques. In this study we present our preliminary experience in applying compressed sensing reconstruction to DCE-MRI of atherosclerosis, with the aim of accelerating tissue acquisition to achive higher in-plane spatial resolution and tissue coverage.

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