Cardiac Tagging with Breath‐Hold Cine MRI

A method is presented for measuring myocardial deformation in a breath‐hold with tagged cine MRI. Tagged cine images of human hearts are obtained in arbitrary oblique planes on a standard imager with as few as four heartbeats. The scan time has been reduced 16‐ to 64‐fold from previous techniques.© 1992 Academic Press,Inc.