Cylindrical inversion pulse for the reduction of cardiac motion artifacts in contrast-enhanced breast MRI

Abstract

We proposed a simple technique for reduction of cardiac-related motion artifacts on contrast-enhanced images in the breast by using cylindrical regional-suppression technique (CREST) that can directly suppress the heart signals. The purpose of this study was to select the optimal scan parameters and to evaluate the feasibility in the breast. We demonstrated that the optimized CREST could dramatically reduce the cardiac-related flow artifacts without any penalty to the acquisition time, signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-enhanced lesion-to-parenchyma contrast.