Artifact‐reduced two‐dimensional cine steady state free precession for myocardial blood‐ oxygen‐level‐dependent imaging

Abstract

Artifact-reduction methods used in this study provide significant improvement in image quality compared with conventional long TR SSFP BOLD MRI. It is envisioned that the methods proposed here may enable reliable detection of myocardial oxygenation changes throughout the cardiac cycle with long TR SSFP-based myocardial BOLD MRI.