Nonlinear profile order for 3D hybrid radial acquisition applied to self-gated free-breathing cardiac cine MRI

Table 1 Image quality measurements of the two methods (N = 9).

	SNR_Blood	CNR_{Blood-Myocardium}	Contrast_{Blood-Myocardium}	Image Sharpness(mm^-1)
Golden Ratio Diastole	53.5 ± 25.3	22.0 ± 14.8	24.7 ± 6.9	0.21 ± 0.04
Nonlinear Diastole	54.4 ± 28.5	22.2 ± 17.0	24.9 ± 9.9	0.24 ± 0.03
P-Value	0.767	0.678	0.767	0.110
Golden Ratio Systole	54.4 ± 18.6	22.1 ± 10.7	24.7 ± 6.8	0.22 ± 0.05
Nonlinear Systole	51.9 ± 21.0	22.2 ± 13.7	26.2 ± 11.4	0.26 ± 0.07
P-Value	0.173	0.678	0.515	0.086

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