Single-breath-hold 3-D CINE imaging of the left ventricle using Cartesian sampling

Objectives Our objectives were to evaluate a single-breath-hold approach for Cartesian 3-D CINE imaging of the left ventricle with a nearly isotropic resolution of \(1.9 \times 1.9 \times 2.5\,{\text {mm}^3}\) and a breath-hold duration of \(\sim \)19 s against a standard stack of 2-D CINE slices acquired in multiple breath-holds. Validation is performed with data sets from ten healthy volunteers.