An echo-planar imaging sequence is superior to a steady-state free precession sequence for visual as well as quantitative assessment of cardiac magnetic resonance stress perfusion.
Britt-Marie AhlanderEva MaretLars BrudinSven-Ake StarckJan E EngvallPublished in: Clinical physiology and functional imaging (2015)
GRE-EPI displayed higher agreement with the MPS results than SSFP despite significantly lower signal intensity, SNR and CNR.