Quantification of myocardial perfusion MRI using radial data acquisition: comparison of Ktrans from dual-bolus and T1 estimation methods

Abstract

Introduction Myocardial perfusion MRI is a useful modality to detect myocardial ischemia. Quantitative perfusion estimates require an accurate arterial input function (AIF). Recently, a method for estimating T1 and thus gadolinium concentration from a radial k-space perfusion sequence was proposed [1]. The method created four sub-images with differing effective saturation recovery times (eSRTs) from 96 ray acquisitions to estimate T1. No measures of truth were used to evaluate the method in vivo. In this work, we employ a similar technique for obtaining T1 estimates and compare to perfusion estimates from a dual-bolus method, a current standard for quantifying myocardial perfusion [2].