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Self-gated PROPELLER-encoded cine cardiac imaging

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This study uses the k-space center over-sampling property of PROPELLER encoding to detect cardiac and respiratory motion using raw k-space data. Using the motion information, cine cardiac imaging is self-gated. The data acquisition process requires neither electrocardiography triggering nor patient breath-holding. Using physiology motion information, this post-processing method rearranges the k-space data into groups corresponding to cardiac and respiratory phases. The PROPELLER blades of the same groups are combined to produce cine high-resolution images. This approach reduces the potential discrepancy of the k-space data and the motion-related artifacts in the reconstructed image because all blades in a group are acquired at consistent cardiac and respiratory phases. The study concludes that self-gated cine cardiac imaging is feasible using PROPELLER encoding. It is a potentially practical tool for cine cardiac imaging.

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This work is supported in part by the National Science Council under grants NSC95-2314-B-011-001 and NSC 100-2628-E-011-001. The authors thank Dr. Wen-Chau Wu of Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University for useful discussions of MR physics, and the Department of Medical Imaging in the National Taiwan University Hospital for the support of MRI experiment.

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Wang, CC., Huang, TY. Self-gated PROPELLER-encoded cine cardiac imaging. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 28, 1477–1485 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-011-9969-0

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