20-min Pediatric Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance without Contrast or Anesthesia: Initial Evaluation in Kids with Congenital Heart Disease
Lexiaozi Fan1,2, Hassan Haji-Valizadeh3, Cynthia K Rigsby4, Joshua D. Robinson4, Paige Constance Nelson4, and Daniel Kim1,2
1Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 3Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 4Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Our
rapid, free-breathing, non-contrast cardiovascular MRI and magnetic resonance
angiography (MRA) methods are capable of accelerating the acquisition without
significant loss in image quality.
Figure 1: Representative
rt-Cine images from 3 different patients. Clinical images (left) and rapid images
(right).
Figure 2: Representative MIPs of three patients. Clinical
images (left) and rapid images (right).