Webinar Overview
Imaging of the heart function in mice is challanging due to rapid cardiac and respiratory motion. Where initally cardiac imaging was introduced by syncronization of the data acquisition to the cardiac and respiratory phase, self-gating approaches have been intriduced providing excellent image quality without the hazzles of limited ECG quality and disturbances of the steady-state.
Recently sampling on radial trajectories with golden angle angular spacing has shown to provide self-gating as well as realtime imaging capabilities from the same continuously acquired data set. The presentation will summarize the principles of golden angle data acquisition and present examples for applying this technique to the assessment of cardiac function and perfusion in mice @11.7T.
On Demand Session
Speaker
Professor Volker Rasche
Ulm University Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Ulm, Germany
Ulm, GermanyProf. Dr. V. Rasche - Experimental Cardiovascular MRI, Ulm University Medical Center:Prof. Rasche has worked in the field of medical imaging over the last 25 years. He is a renown physicist for developing new imaging methods for clinical and preclinical cardiovascular imaging applications. After 15 years with industrial research and a position as visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School, he picked up a full professorship for experimental cardiovascular imaging at the University of Ulm. His main research interests are in the field of motion quantification, imaging of the vessel wall, multi-modal use of modalities for interventional procedure guidance, and the application of MRI to new fields. In his scientific career, he has published more than 110 peer reviewed papers, contributed more than 200 conference contributions and is currently holding more than 65 patents in the field of medical imaging.