Fig. 6

Visual comparison of cine image quality. Eight frames from a 24-frames free-breathing ECG-free self-gated sorted golden-step cine (sGS FB) acquired with 12 readouts per segment are compared with the references cine (ECG BH) acquired with ECG gating, breath hold, and sequential PEs. Several representative slices of the SAX stack at different levels (apical, mid-ventricular, basal) and a 4-chamber LAX slice are shown. Mild ghosting and blurring may be visible on some sGS images but all are free from flow- and eddy current-induced dark flow artifacts. SAX: short axis. LAX: long axis