Coronary Imaging

16:00      701.    Artifact-Free MR-Compatible Coronary Stent: In-Vitro and First Human MR Imaging Experience with an Absorbable Mg-Alloy Stent

Peter Hunold¹, Harald H. Quick¹, Holger Eggebrecht², Axel Schmermund², Jörg Rodermann², Michaela Jökel¹,

Sandra Massing¹, Jörg Barkhausen¹, Raimund Erbel²

¹University Hospital, Essen, Germany; ²West German Heart Center, University Hospital, Essen, Germany
 

16:12      702.    Highly Accelerated Single Breath-Hold Coronary MRA with Whole Heart Coverage Using a Cardiac Optimized 32-Element Coil Array  - not available

Thoralf Niendorf^1,2, Christopher J. Hardy³, Harvey Cline³, Randy O. Giaquinto³, Aaron K. Grant², Neil M. Rofsky², Daniel K. Sodickson²

¹GE Healthcare Technologies, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA
 

16:24      703.    Fast Whole-Heart Coronary MRA Using 3D-Radial SSFP with 32 Channel Parallel Acquisition and Self-Navigated Image Reconstruction

Christian Stehning¹, Matthias Stuber², Peter Börnert³, Kay Nehrke³, Olaf Dössel¹

¹University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany
 

16:36      704.    Free Breathing Whole Heart Coronary Angiography on a Clinical Scanner in Less Than 4 Minutes  - not available

Kay Nehrke¹, Peter Börnert¹, Christian Stehning², Richard Winkelmann², Ingmar Grässlin¹, Johan Overweg¹,

Peter Mazurkewitz¹, Tom Rozijn³

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands
 

16:48      705.    Diagnostic Performance of Whole Heart Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography in 101 Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease : Effects of Heart Rate on Image Quality and Accuracy  - not available

Yasutaka Ichikawa¹, Hajime Sakuma², Shuji Chino¹, Tadanori Hirano¹, Kan Takeda², Shoko Okano¹,

Katsutoshi Makino¹

¹Matsusaka Central Hospital, Matsusaka, Mie, Japan; ²Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Mie, Japan
 

17:00      706.    4D Radial Coronary Artery Imaging Within a Single Breath-Hold: Cine Angiography with Phase Sensitive Fat Suppression (CAPS)

Jaeseok Park¹, Andrew C. Larson¹, Qiang Zhang², Orlando Simonetti², Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solution, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 

17:12      707.    Whole Heart Coronary Angiography Using Self-Navigated "Paddle-Wheel" Balanced SSFP

Koichi Oshio¹

¹Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
 

17:24      708.    MR Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging Using Radial and Spiral K-Space Sampling  - not available

Marcus Katoh^1,2, Elmar Spuentrup¹, Arno Buecker¹, Warren J. Manning², Rolf W. Guenther¹, Rene M. Botnar²

¹RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 

17:36      709.    Flow Targeted Coronary MR Angiography: Comparison of Three Different Spin Labeling Techniques  - not available

Marcus Katoh^1,2, Rene M. Botnar², Arno Buecker¹, Warren J. Manning², Rolf W. Guenther¹, Matthias Stuber³,

Elmar Spuentrup¹

¹RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 

17:48      710.    Texture-Mapped Polygonal Reformatting for Interactive Visualization of 3D Coronary MRA

Meiyappan Solaiyappan¹, Ulrike Blume², David Maintz³, Robert G. Weiss¹, Matthias Stuber¹

¹School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Remagen, Germany; ³University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany