This study aimed to investigate the role of regional f 0 inhomogeneity in spiral hyperpolarized 13 C image quality and to develop measures to alleviate these effects. Methods: Field map correction of hyperpolarized 13 C cardiac imaging using spiral readouts was evaluated in healthy subjects. Spiral readouts with differing duration (26 and 45 ms) but similar resolution were compared with respect to off-resonance performance and image quality. An f 0 map-based image correction based on the multifrequency interpolation (MFI) method was implemented and compared to correction using a global frequency shift alone. Estimation of an unknown frequency shift was performed by maximizing a sharpness objective based on the Sobel variance. The apparent full width half at maximum (FWHM) of the myocardial wall on [ 13 C]bicarbonate was used to estimate blur. Results: Mean myocardial wall FWHM measurements were unchanged with the short readout pre-correction (14.1 ± 2.9 mm) and post-MFI correction (14.1 ± 3.4 mm), but significantly decreased in the long waveform (20.6 ± 6.6 mm uncorrected, 17.7 ± 7.0 corrected, P = .007). Bicarbonate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the images acquired with the long waveform were increased by 1.4 ± 0.3 compared 158 | REED Et al. How to cite this article: Reed GD, Ma J, Park JM, et al. Characterization and compensation of f 0 inhomogeneity artifact in spiral hyperpolarized 13 C imaging of the human heart.

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