Archontis Giannakidis1,
Gerd Melkus2, Jing Liu2, David A. Saloner2,
Sharmila Majumdar2, Grant T. Gullberg1, 2
1Radiotracer
Development and Imaging Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA, United States; 2Radiology and Biomedical Imaging,
University California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
A novel 3D Cartesian under-sampling scheme is applied to reduce acquisition time in the Diffusion Tensor MRI of an excised rat heart. Results show that acceleration of factors up to 6 may be achieved without substantial impairment of accuracy.