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  • Cardiovascular MRI
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  • Medical Imaging Techniques

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  • Cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) is crucial for assessing myocardial microstructure.
  • Efficient cDTI requires optimizing slice interleaving, reduced phase encode (PE) field of view (FOV), and effective fat suppression to minimize artifacts.
  • Current methods face challenges in balancing speed, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and artifact reduction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To optimize reduced FOV and fat suppression techniques for interleaved multislice cDTI.
  • To enhance signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and minimize artifacts in cardiac imaging.
  • To evaluate novel sequences for improved clinical translation of cDTI.

Main Methods:

  • Acquisition of two-slice motion-compensated spin echo datasets in 20 healthy volunteers.
  • Evaluation of four reduced PE FOV sequences, including 2DRF pulse, 180° or 90° pulses in PE direction, and a proposed flip-back sequence.
  • Implementation and comparison of four fat suppression techniques: no suppression, fat saturation, binomial water excitation, and spectral attenuated inversion recovery (SPAIR).

Main Results:

  • The proposed flip-back sequence combined with SPAIR demonstrated significantly higher median SNR (p < 0.01) compared to the current state-of-the-art (2DRF with SPAIR).
  • SPAIR and water excitation showed comparable performance with the flip-back sequence, yielding superior image quality over no suppression or fat saturation.
  • SPAIR provided robust fat suppression in most subjects, while water excitation was advantageous for subjects with higher body mass index.

Conclusions:

  • The developed flip-back sequence with SPAIR enables efficient interleaved multislice cDTI with reduced PE FOV and effective fat suppression.
  • This optimized approach facilitates the clinical translation of in vivo cDTI.
  • The findings offer a pathway to improved cardiac imaging diagnostics.