DOI: 10.1148/ryct.240181 ISSN: 2638-6135

Evaluating the Effect of Heart Rate on T2 Balanced Steady-State Free Precession Cardiac MRI Mapping

Maximilian Fenski, Darian Viezzer, Vy-An Nguyen, Simone Hufnagel, Leonard Grassow, Maša Božić-Iven, Sebastian Weingärtner, Christoph Kolbitsch, Jeanette Schulz-Menger

A T2 balanced steady-state free precession cardiac MRI mapping sequence with three R-R intervals underestimated myocardial T2 values as heart rate increased, but this dependence was mitigated by using longer resting periods.

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