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. 2019 Jan 5;19:1. doi: 10.1186/s12880-018-0301-5

Table 1.

CMR pulse sequence parameters

Tecnique Sequence Parameters Notes on Image Generation
Cine imaging Breath-hold segmented steady state free precession flip angle:56°; voxel size: 1,4 × 1,4 × 6,0
TR/TE:37,1/1,19 ms, matrix: 256 × 208; field-of-view: 300 × 240 mm2; parlallel imaging acquisition technique: 2; cardiac phases: 25
T1-mapping 2D Breath-hold MOdified Look-Locker Inversion-Recovery (MOLLI) Acquisition Sampling Scheme:
a) pre-contrast (native): 5 (3)3
b) Post-contrast: 4 (1)3 (1)2
Read-out: SSFP single-shot, trigger delay in mid-diastole, flip angle: 35°, voxel size: 1.5 × 1.5x8mm3; parallel acquisition factor: 2, number of inversion pulse 2 and 3 for native and post-contrast
Generation of inline motion corrected pixel-based T1-maps by acquiring a series of images over several heart-beats with shifted inversion delays corrected by RR duration
T2-mapping 2D Breath-hold T2-prepared SSFP sequence Read-out: single-shot SSFP, trigger delay in mid-diastole, flip angle: 70°, voxel size: 1.9 × 1.9x8mm3, matrix size: 192 × 154;; FOV: 360x288mm2, parlallel imaging acquisition technique: 2 Generation of inline motion corrected pixel-based T2-maps by acquiring 3 images with different T2 preparation time (0, 25, 55 ms) with a gap of 2 RR interval within 1 breath-hold
Late gadolinium enhancement 2D breath-hold segmented T1-weighted gradient echo inversion recover with phase sensative reconstraction Flip angle: 35°; voxel size: 1,3 × 1,3 × 8 mm3; matrix size; 256 × 208; TR.TE:848/3,8 ms; FOV: 340 × 275 mm2; parallel acquisition factor 2, number of segment: 20 to 30