title: Acceleration of tissue phase mapping with sensitivity encoding at 3T.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of sensitivity encoding on the quantitative assessment of cardiac motion in black blood cine tissue phase mapping (TPM) sequences. Up to now whole volume coverage of the heart is still limited by the long acquisition times. Therefore, a significant increase in imaging speed without deterioration of quantitative motion information is indispensable.
  
  
  METHODS
  20 volunteers were enrolled in this study. Each volunteer underwent myocardial short-axis TPM scans with different SENSE acceleration factors. The influence of SENSE acceleration on the measured motion curves was investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It is demonstrated that all TPM sequences with SENSE acceleration have only minimum influence on the motion curves. Even with a SENSE factor of four, the decrease in the amplitude of the motion curve was less than 3%. No significant difference was observed for the global correlation coefficient and deviation between the motion curves obtained by the reproducibility and the SENSE accelerated measurements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is feasible to accelerate myocardial TPM measurements with SENSE factors up to 4 without losing substantial information of the motion pattern.
authors: Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm Germany. anja.lutz@uni-ulm.de
authors: Anja
authors: A
authors: Lutz
authors: Axel
authors: A
authors: Bornstedt
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Manzke
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Etyngier
authors: G Ulrich
authors: GU
authors: Nienhaus
authors: Wolfgang
authors: W
authors: Rottbauer
authors: Volker
authors: V
authors: Rasche
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left; D055815:Young Adult