Fig. 3

Quantitative and qualitative coronary metrics for sub-millimeter isotropic CMRA images for 10 healthy subjects for translational motion correction only (TC-PROST, black), non-rigid motion-compensated SENSE reconstruction (NR-SENSE, grey) and the proposed non-rigid motion-compensated PROST (NR-PROST, white). Vessel sharpness results are shown for the first 4 cm (a) and the full length (b), and coronary vessel length are depicted in (c). Qualitative visual scores of the LAD and RCA (d) and reconstruction rankings (e) are shown for the three reconstruction techniques. Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. Differences with statistical significance are identified by *P < 0.05. The dotted red lines depict the median values. Abbreviations: LAD, left anterior descending artery; RCA, right coronary artery