SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEMPORALLY RESOLVED IMAGES DEPICTING LATE-GADOLINIUM ENHANCEMENT WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

摘要

Systems and methods for late gadolinium enhancement (“LGE”) tissue viability imaging in a dynamic (e.g., temporal-ly-resolved) manner using magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) are provided. Dynamic LGE images can be generated throughout the entire cardiac cycle at high temporal resolution in a single breath-hold. Dynamic, semi-quantitative longitudinal relaxation maps are acquired and retrospective synthetization of dynamic LGE images is implemented using those semi-quantitative longitudinal relaxation maps.