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The aim of this study is to simultaneously quantify T1/T2 across three slices of the left-ventricular myocardium without breath-holds or ECG monitoring, all within a 3 min scan. Radial simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) encoding, self-gating, and image reconstruction was incorporated into the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) Multitasking framework to simultaneously image three short-axis slices. A T2prep-IR FLASH sequence with two flip angles was designed and implemented to allow B1+-robust T1 and T2 mapping. The proposed Multitasking-SMS method was validated in a standardized phantom and 10 healthy volunteers, comparing T1 and T2 measurements and scan-rescan repeatability against corresponding reference methods in one layer of phantom vials and in 16 American Heart Association (AHA) myocardial segments. In phantom, Multitasking-SMS T1/T2 measurements showed substantial correlation ( R  2  &amp;gt; 0.996) and excellent agreement [intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) ≥ 0.999)] with reference measurements. In healthy volunteers, Multitasking-SMS T1/T2 maps reported similar myocardial T1/T2 values (1,215 ± 91.0/41.5 ± 6.3 ms) to the reference myocardial T1/T2 values (1,239 ± 67.5/42.7 ± 4.1 ms), with  P  = 0.347 and  P  = 0.296, respectively. Bland–Altman analyses also demonstrated good  in vivo  repeatability in both the multitasking and references, with segment-wise coefficients of variation of 4.7% (multitasking T1), 8.9% (multitasking T2), 2.4% [modified look-locker inversion recovery (MOLLI)], and 4.6% (T2-prep FLASH), respectively. In summary, multitasking-SMS is feasible for free-breathing, non-ECG, myocardial T1/T2 quantification in 16 AHA segments over 3 short-axis slices in 3 min. The method shows the great potential for reducing exam time for quantitative CMR without ECG or breath-holds.

Simultaneous Multi-Slice Cardiac MR Multitasking for Motion-Resolved, Non-ECG, Free-Breathing T1–T2 Mapping