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Cardiac T1-T2 mapping provides information about focal and diffuse fibrosis and inflammation of the myocardium. A recently proposed free-running 3D mapping technique allows time efficient and simultaneous whole-heart T1-T2 mapping within a single scan, with retrospective respiratory motion correction. However, this approach loses the information about the temporal contrast evolution and does not reconstruct multi-contrast 3D whole-heart images, which may carry useful clinical information in patients with myocardial infarction and, acute and subacute thrombus. In this work, we propose to extend this approach to enable joint T1-T2 mapping, CINE, and multi-contrast 3D whole-heart imaging from a single free-running scan.
Garrido et al. (Wed,) studied this question.