Figure 2

Conventional fat saturation (chemical selective saturation) image (a) and fat-water separated images (b, c) from a targeted right coronary artery (RCA) measurement at 3 T in a healthy volunteer without any contrast agent administration. Conventional fat saturation yields suboptimal results in some areas (a - red arrows), however, robust fat suppression is achieved over the entire FOV using the proposed technique. Moreover, the use of multiple echoes increases the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Water-only (d) and fat-only (e) pre-contrast images from another health subject demonstrate excellent fat suppression and clearly depict RCA (red arrows).