Abstract
Respiratory motion is a major limiting factor in improving image resolution and signal‐to‐noise ratio in MR coronary imaging. In this work the effects of respiration on the cardiac position were studied quantitively by imaging the heart during diastole at various positions of tidal respiration with a breath‐hold segmented fast gradient echo technique. It was found that during tidal breathing the movement of the heart due to respiration is dominated by superior‐inferior (SI) motion, which is linearly related to the SI motion of the diaphragm. The motion of the heart due to respiration is approximately a global translation. These results provide motivation for employing adaptive motion correction techniques to reduce image blurring in nonbreath‐hold coronary MR imaging.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 713-719 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Magnetic Resonance in Medicine |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1995 |
Keywords
- cardiac imaging
- coronary magnetic resonance angiography
- image artifacts
- respiratory motion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging