Abstract: One aspect of the present subject matter provides an imaging method including: receiving a trigger signal; after a period substantially equal to a trigger delay minus an inversion delay, applying a non-selective inversion radiofrequency pulse to a region of interest followed by a slice-selective reinversion radiofrequency pulse to a slice of the region of interest of a subject; and after lapse of the trigger delay commenced at the cardiac cycle signal, acquiring a plurality of time-resolved images of the slice of the region of interest from an imaging device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 21, 2013
Publication date:
August 13, 2015
Applicant:
The United States of America as reprensented by Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Inventors:
Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem, Ahmed M. Gharib, Roderic I. Pettigrew