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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 May;31(5):1230–1235. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22140

Table 1.

Lengths of major coronary arteries visualized and image sharpness with the VIPR SSFP and Cartesian SSFP sequence. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

Quantitative analysis	Vessel length (cm)				Sharpness (mm⁻¹)
Quantitative analysis	LAD	LCX	RCA	LM	Sharpness (mm⁻¹)
VIPR SSFP	10.13 ± 0.79	7.90 ± 0.91	7.50 ± 1.65	1.84 ± 0.23	0.81 ± 0.11
Cartesian SSFP	1.57 ± 2.02	1.54 ± 1.93	0.94 ± 1.17	0.46 ± 0.53	0.61 ± 0.13