Felix Schwab1,
Lena Vomacka1, Daniel Theisen1, Maximilian F. Reiser1,
Olaf Dietrich1
1Institute
for Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Hospital Munich, Munich,
Bavaria, Germany
This abstract investigates the potential of Low TI saturation recovery sequences to assess non-linearities in cardiac perfusion analyses. The corresponding sequences appear to be well described by a linear approximation and demonstrate that standard clinical protocols are afflicted with significant non-linearities and thus overestimate perfusion parameters. Arterial input functions calculated from the low TI protocols can circumvent this problem.