Cardiac-respiratory self-gated cine ultra-short echo time (UTE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance for assessment of functional cardiac parameters at high magnetic fields

Table 1 CNR values between the blood in the ventricles and the myocardial wall

CNR^§	End-diastole^$	End-systole^$
UTE (left ventricle – left myocardium)	22.7 ± 5.3	21.1 ± 4.5
UTE (right ventricle – right myocardium)	25.5 ± 7.8	21.5 ± 5.2
FLASH (left ventricle – left myocardium)	40.8 ± 12.0	36.7 ± 11.0
FLASH (right ventricle – right myocardium)	39.6 ± 11.0	33.1 ± 9.7

^§Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) was measured in the end-diastolic and end-systolic phase by self-gated FLASH and self-gated UTE sequences.
^$Values are given as mean ± standard deviation values, averaged over six healthy C57BL/6 mice.

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