Table 5 Frequency of artifacts
From: Improved dark blood imaging of the heart using radial balanced steady-state free precession
LV signal dropout | Incomplete blood suppression near myocardium | Streaking or ghosting artifacta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Weighting | Slice Orientation | Radial bSSFP | Cartesian FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cartesian FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cartesian FSE |
T1 | short-axis | 2/13 | 4/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 10/13 | 7/13 |
T1 | four-chamber | 1/7 | 0/7 | 1/7 | 5/7 | 6/7 | 1/7 |
T1 | any | 3/20 | 4/20 | 1/20 | 5/20 | 16/20* | 8/20 |
T2 | short-axis | 4/20** | 14/20 | 2/20 | 3/20 | 7/20 | 7/20 |
T2 | four-chamber | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 |
T2 | any | 4/21** | 14/21 | 2/21 | 4/21 | 8/21 | 7/21 |
all comparisons | 7/41* | 18/41 | 3/41 | 9/41 | 24/41 | 15/41 | |