Figure 1.

Image quality and respiratory artefact scores for volunteers and patients with both sequences. Scores for image quality (A) and respiratory artefacts (B) in volunteers and patients ranging from 0 to 4 (4 = excellent, 3 good, 2 moderate, 1 poor and 0 non diagnostic for image quality; 4 = nil significant, 3 = minor, 2 moderate 1 = severe, 0 = non-diagnostic due to respiratory artefact for respiratory artefacts). Image quality scores were significantly higher with kt_BLAST-SSFP and there was a non-significant trend towards fewer respiratory artefacts with st-GrE.