The authors developed a free-breathing black-blood coronary magnetic resona
nce (MR) angiographic technique with a potential for exclusive visualizatio
n of the coronary blood pool. Results with the MR angiographic technique we
re evaluated in eight healthy subjects and four patients with coronary dise
ase identified at conventional angiography. This MR angiographic technique
accurately depicted luminal disease in the patients and permitted visualiza
tion of extensive continuous segments of the native coronary tree in both t
he healthy subjects and the patients. Black-blood coronary MR angiography p
rovides an alternative source of contrast enhancement.