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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2015 Aug 12;23(4):669–679. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2015.05.006

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Right heart catheterization using real-time MR imaging to navigate a gadolinium-filled balloon (arrows) between cardiac chambers. Standard real-time bSSFP (A, C, E) and real-time bSSFP with saturation prepulses (B, D, F) are depicted. Saturation prepulses are used to isolate the gadolinium-filled balloon signal. (From Ratnayaka K, Faranesh AZ, Hansen MS, et al. Real-time MRI-guided right heart catheterization in adults using passive catheters. Eur Heart J 2013;34(5):380–9; with permission.)