Coronary arteries: three-dimensional MR imaging with fat saturation and magnetization transfer contrast.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the coronary arteries is a particularly difficult task because of the small size of the vessels and the motion of the heart during the cardiac and respiratory cycles. The authors developed a non-breath-hold three-dimensional (3D) technique to accomplish this goal. Imaging was performed with voxel sizes of 1.50-4.50 mm3. This allows for excellent multiplanar reconstruction to view the coronary arteries from any …