Noncontrast free-breathing respiratory self-navigated coronary artery cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography at 3 T using lipid insensitive binomial off-resonant excitation (LIBRE).

Jessica A M BastiaansenRuud B van HeeswijkMatthias StuberDavide Piccini

Published in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2019)

Applied to a respiratory self-navigated noncontrast 3D radial whole-heart sequence, LIBRE enables robust large volume fat suppression and significantly improves coronary artery image quality at 3 T compared to the use of conventional FS and WE.

Keyphrases

coronary artery
image quality
dual energy
magnetic resonance
computed tomography
pulmonary artery
fatty acid
energy transfer
optical coherence tomography
contrast enhanced
adipose tissue
heart failure
respiratory tract
atrial fibrillation
ultrasound guided
quantum dots