Cardiac imaging has a pivotal role in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ischaemic
heart disease. SPECT is most commonly used for clinical myocardial perfusion imaging …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a versatile tool that has established
itself as the reference method for functional assessment and tissue characterisation. CMR …

Cardiovascular diseases pose a significant health and economic burden worldwide, with
coronary artery disease still recognized as a major problem. It is closely associated with …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to further develop and combine several innovative
sequence designs to achieve quantitative 3D myocardial perfusion. These developments …

Background A velocity-selective binomial excitation scheme for myocardial first-pass
perfusion measurements with hyperpolarized 13 C substrates, which preserves bolus …

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has arisen as a method of choice for myocardial
ischemia assessment. CMR is endowed with a series of advantageous characteristics …

Background The feasibility of absolute myocardial blood flow quantification and suitability of
hyperpolarized [1-13 C] pyruvate as contrast agent for first-pass cardiovascular magnetic …

Background Whole-heart first-pass perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)
relies on highly accelerated image acquisition. The influence of undersampling on …

Purpose To propose respiratory motion‐informed locally low‐rank reconstruction (MI‐LLR)
for robust free‐breathing single‐bolus quantitative 3D myocardial perfusion CMR imaging …

Purpose To evaluate a novel 2D simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) myocardial perfusion
acquisition and compare directly to a published quantitative 3D stack-of-stars (SoS) …