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Kourtidou S, Jones MR, Moore RA, Tretter JT, Ollberding NJ, Crotty EJ, Rattan MS, Fleck RJ, Taylor MD. mDixon ECG-gated 3-dimensional cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography in patients with congenital cardiovascular disease. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2019; 21:52. [PMID: 31391061 PMCID: PMC6686451 DOI: 10.1186/s12968-019-0554-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) angiography (CMRA) is an important non-invasive imaging tool for congenital heart disease (CHD) and aortopathy patients. The conventional 3D balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequence is often confounded by imaging artifacts. We sought to compare the respiratory navigated and electrocardiogram (ECG) gated modified Dixon (mDixon) CMRA sequence to conventional non-gated dynamic multi-phase contrast enhanced CMRA (CE-CMRA) and bSSFP across a variety of diagnoses. METHODS We included 24 patients with CHD or aortopathy with CMR performed between September 2017 to December 2017. Each patient had undergone CE-CMRA, followed by a bSSFP and mDixon angiogram. Patients with CMR-incompatible implants or contraindications to contrast were excluded. The studies were rated according to image quality at a scale from 1 (poor) to 4 (excellent) based on diagnostic adequacy, artifact burden, vascular border delineation, myocardium-blood pool contrast, and visualization of pulmonary and systemic veins and coronaries. Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and quantitative vascular measurements were compared between the two gated sequences. Bland-Altman plots were generated to compare paired measures. RESULTS All scans were diagnostically adequate. Mean (SD) quality scores were 3.4 (0.7) for the mDixon, 3.2 (0.5) for the bSSFP and 3.4 (0.5) for the CE-CMRA. Qualitatively, the intracardiac anatomy and myocardium-blood pool definition were better in the bSSFP; however, mDixon images showed enhanced vessel wall sharpness with less blurring surrounding the anatomical borders distally. Coronary origins were identified in all cases. Pulmonary veins were visualized in 92% of mDixon sequences, 75% of bSSFP and 96% of CE-CMRA. Similarly, neck veins were identified in 92, 83 and 96% respectively. Artifacts prevented vascular measurement in 6/192 (3%) and 4/192 (2%) of total vascular measurements for the mDixon and bSSFP, respectively. However, the size of signal void and field distortion were significantly worse in the latter, particularly for flow and metal induced artifacts. CONCLUSION In patients with congenital heart disease, ECG gated mDixon angiography yields high fidelity vascular images including better delineation of head and neck vasculature and pulmonary veins and fewer artifacts than the comparable bSSFP sequence. It should be considered as the preferred strategy for successful CHD imaging in patients with valve stenosis, vascular stents, or metallic implants.
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- Soultana Kourtidou
- Weil Cornell Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, 525 East 68th St, F-677, New York, NY 10065 USA
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- St. David’s Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705 USA
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- The Heart Institute, Department of Pediatrics, David’s Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705 USA
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- The Heart Institute, Department of Pediatrics, David’s Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705 USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
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- The Heart Institute, Department of Pediatrics, David’s Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705 USA
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Aquaro GD, Di Bella G, Castelletti S, Maestrini V, Festa P, Ait-Ali L, Masci PG, Monti L, di Giovine G, De Lazzari M, Cipriani A, Guaricci AI, Dellegrottaglie S, Pepe A, Marra MP, Pontone G. Clinical recommendations of cardiac magnetic resonance, Part I: ischemic and valvular heart disease: a position paper of the working group 'Applicazioni della Risonanza Magnetica' of the Italian Society of Cardiology. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2017; 18:197-208. [PMID: 28072628 DOI: 10.2459/jcm.0000000000000498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has emerged as a reliable and accurate diagnostic tool for the evaluation of patients with cardiac disease in several clinical settings and with proven additional diagnostic and prognostic value compared with other imaging modalities. This document has been developed by the working group on the 'application of CMR' of the Italian Society of Cardiology to provide a perspective on the current state of technical advances and clinical applications of CMR and to inform cardiologists on how to implement their clinical and diagnostic pathways with the inclusion of this technique in clinical practice. The writing committee consisted of members of the working group of the Italian Society of Cardiology and two external peer reviewers with acknowledged experience in the field of CMR.
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- Giovanni Donato Aquaro
- aU.O.C. Risonanza Magnetica per Immagini, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana Pisa bUO Cardiologia, Università di Messina, Messina cIstituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano dDepartment of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Geriatric, Anesthesiologic and Nephrologic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy eCentre for Cardiac MR, Cardiology Unit, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland fU.O. Radiologia Diagnostica, Humanitas Hospital, Milan gDivision of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria 'Maggiore della Carità', Eastern Piemont University, Novara hU.O. Clinica Cardiologica, Dipartimento di Scienze Cardiologiche, Toraciche e Vascolari, Università di Padova, Padua iUnità Operativa di Cardiologia Universitaria Dipartimento di Emergenze e Trapianti di Organi (D.E.T.O.) Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Consorziale di Bari, Bari jLaboratorio di RM Cardiovascolare Divisione di Cardiologia Clinica Villa dei Fiori, Acerra kU.O. Cardiologia, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Milano, Italy
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Functional relevance of coronary artery disease by cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiac computed tomography: myocardial perfusion and fractional flow reserve. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:297696. [PMID: 25692133 PMCID: PMC4323071 DOI: 10.1155/2015/297696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and it is responsible for an increasing resource burden. The identification of patients at high risk for adverse events is crucial to select those who will receive the greatest benefit from revascularization. To this aim, several non-invasive functional imaging modalities are usually used as gatekeeper to invasive coronary angiography, but the diagnostic yield of elective invasive coronary angiography remains unfortunately low. Stress myocardial perfusion imaging by cardiac magnetic resonance (stress-CMR) has emerged as an accurate technique for diagnosis and prognostic stratification of the patients with known or suspected CAD thanks to high spatial and temporal resolution, absence of ionizing radiation, and the multiparametric value including the assessment of cardiac anatomy, function, and viability. On the other side, cardiac computed tomography (CCT) has emerged as unique technique providing coronary arteries anatomy and more recently, due to the introduction of stress-CCT and noninvasive fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT), functional relevance of CAD in a single shot scan. The current review evaluates the technical aspects and clinical experience of stress-CMR and CCT in the evaluation of functional relevance of CAD discussing the strength and weakness of each approach.
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Soleimanifard S, Stuber M, Hays AG, Weiss RG, Schär M. Robust volume-targeted balanced steady-state free-precession coronary magnetic resonance angiography in a breathhold at 3.0 Tesla: a reproducibility study. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2014; 16:27. [PMID: 24758168 PMCID: PMC4006454 DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-16-27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transient balanced steady-state free-precession (bSSFP) has shown substantial promise for noninvasive assessment of coronary arteries but its utilization at 3.0 T and above has been hampered by susceptibility to field inhomogeneities that degrade image quality. The purpose of this work was to refine, implement, and test a robust, practical single-breathhold bSSFP coronary MRA sequence at 3.0 T and to test the reproducibility of the technique. METHODS A 3D, volume-targeted, high-resolution bSSFP sequence was implemented. Localized image-based shimming was performed to minimize inhomogeneities of both the static magnetic field and the radio frequency excitation field. Fifteen healthy volunteers and three patients with coronary artery disease underwent examination with the bSSFP sequence (scan time = 20.5 ± 2.0 seconds), and acquisitions were repeated in nine subjects. The images were quantitatively analyzed using a semi-automated software tool, and the repeatability and reproducibility of measurements were determined using regression analysis and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), in a blinded manner. RESULTS The 3D bSSFP sequence provided uniform, high-quality depiction of coronary arteries (n = 20). The average visible vessel length of 100.5 ± 6.3 mm and sharpness of 55 ± 2% compared favorably with earlier reported navigator-gated bSSFP and gradient echo sequences at 3.0 T. Length measurements demonstrated a highly statistically significant degree of inter-observer (r = 0.994, ICC = 0.993), intra-observer (r = 0.894, ICC = 0.896), and inter-scan concordance (r = 0.980, ICC = 0.974). Furthermore, ICC values demonstrated excellent intra-observer, inter-observer, and inter-scan agreement for vessel diameter measurements (ICC = 0.987, 0.976, and 0.961, respectively), and vessel sharpness values (ICC = 0.989, 0.938, and 0.904, respectively). CONCLUSIONS The 3D bSSFP acquisition, using a state-of-the-art MR scanner equipped with recently available technologies such as multi-transmit, 32-channel cardiac coil, and localized B0 and B1+ shimming, allows accelerated and reproducible multi-segment assessment of the major coronary arteries at 3.0 T in a single breathhold. This rapid sequence may be especially useful for functional imaging of the coronaries where the acquisition time is limited by the stress duration and in cases where low navigator-gating efficiency prohibits acquisition of a free breathing scan in a reasonable time period.
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- Sahar Soleimanifard
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Barrow Neurological Institute, Keller Center for Imaging Innovation, 350 W. Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA
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Cheng L, Ma L, Schoenhagen P, Ye H, Lou X, Gao Y, Zhao X, Wang X, Dong W. Comparison of three-dimensional volume-targeted thin-slab FIESTA magnetic resonance angiography and 64-multidetector computed tomographic angiography for the identification of proximal coronary stenosis. Int J Cardiol 2012; 167:2969-76. [PMID: 22999342 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.08.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2012] [Revised: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 08/31/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Based on recent clinical data, an imaging strategy of identifying proximal coronary disease allows further management decisions in patients with stable angina pectoris. We aimed to compare diagnostic accuracy of non-contrast fast steady-state (FIESTA) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) with 64-multidetector computed tomographic angiography (CTA), using conventional coronary angiography (CA) as the reference standard. METHODS Thirty patients with suspected coronary artery disease consented to participate in an institutional review board-approved protocol. Coronary MRA was performed at 1.5 T using a respiratory navigator and electrocardiogram-gated three-dimensional FIESTA pulse sequence. CTA images were acquired using a 64-multidetector computed tomographic scanner, using beta blockade to reduce the heart rate to less than 70 bpm. Coronary luminal stenosis >50% was identified. Plaques were classified as non-calcified, mixed, or calcified on CTA, and as high-, intermediate-, or low-signal on FIESTA MRA. RESULTS Compared to CA, the sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy for detection of >50% proximal coronary stenoses were 83.0%, 86.9%, and 86.1% for MRA and 85.1%, 87.2%, and 86.8% for CTA, respectively. For the 24 calcified stenoses, MRA corrected 16 segments that overestimated on CTA and MRA had an accuracy of 75% in evaluating calcified plaques. CONCLUSIONS High-resolution three-dimensional FIESTA MRA and CTA have a similar accuracy in detecting proximal coronary stenosis. The clinical impact of identification of proximal disease in patients with stable CAD needs to be examined in future studies.
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- Liuquan Cheng
- Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
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Zannad F, De Backer G, Graham I, Lorenz M, Mancia G, Morrow DA, Reiner Z, Koenig W, Dallongeville J, Macfadyen RJ, Ruilope LM, Wilhelmsen L. Risk stratification in cardiovascular disease primary prevention - scoring systems, novel markers, and imaging techniques. Fundam Clin Pharmacol 2012; 26:163-74. [PMID: 22220636 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2011.01023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The aim of this paper is to review and discuss current methods of risk stratification for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, emerging biomarkers, and imaging techniques, and their relative merits and limitations. This report is based on discussions that took place among experts in the area during a special CardioVascular Clinical Trialists workshop organized by the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy in September 2009. Classical risk factors such as blood pressure and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels remain the cornerstone of risk estimation in primary prevention but their use as a guide to management is limited by several factors: (i) thresholds for drug treatment vary with the available evidence for cost-effectiveness and benefit-to-risk ratios; (ii) assessment may be imprecise; (iii) residual risk may remain, even with effective control of dyslipidemia and hypertension. Novel measures include C-reactive protein, lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) , genetic markers, and markers of subclinical organ damage, for which there are varying levels of evidence. High-resolution ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging to assess carotid atherosclerotic lesions have potential but require further validation, standardization, and proof of clinical usefulness in the general population. In conclusion, classical risk scoring systems are available and inexpensive but have a number of limitations. Novel risk markers and imaging techniques may have a place in drug development and clinical trial design. However, their additional value above and beyond classical risk factors has yet to be determined for risk-guided therapy in CVD prevention.
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- Faiez Zannad
- Centre for Clinical Investigation, Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, CHU Brabois, 54500 Vandoeuvre, France.
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Comparison of 3D free-breathing coronary MR angiography and 64-MDCT angiography for detection of coronary stenosis in patients with high calcium scores. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2007; 189:1326-32. [PMID: 18029867 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.07.2805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to compare the diagnostic performance of coronary MR angiography (MRA) and 64-MDCT angiography (MDCTA) for the detection of significant stenosis (> or = 50%) in patients with high calcium scores. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighteen patients (12 men, six women; mean age, 56 y; age range, 38-77 y) who had at least one calcified plaque with a calcium score of > 100 underwent coronary MRA and conventional coronary angiography (CAG) within 2 weeks of MDCTA. Coronary MRA image quality of the calcified segments was assessed by two observers in consensus on a 4-point scale (1 = not visible, 2 = poor, 3 = good, 4 = excellent) using a 10-segment model from the modified American Heart Association classification. Three experienced radiologists, unaware of the results of conventional CAG, independently assessed for the presence of significant stenosis on MDCTA images and the corresponding MRA images. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were calculated for each reader using conventional CAG as the gold standard. RESULTS Thirty-three calcified plaques with a calcium score of > 100 were detected on MDCTA in the 18 patients. The coronary segments with nodal calcification (n = 17) showed a higher mean image quality score than the segments with diffuse calcification (n = 16) (3.47 +/- 0.62 vs 2.94 +/- 0.77, respectively; p < 0.05). Of the 33 coronary segments with calcification, 12 significant stenoses were identified on conventional CAG. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the ROC curve (AUC) for MRA and MDCTA, respectively, were as follows: reader 1, 75%, 81%, 0.82 versus 75%, 48%, 0.68; reader 2, 83%, 71%, 0.82 versus 67%, 52%, 0.63; and reader 3, 83%, 71%, 0.85 versus 83%, 43%, 0.65, respectively. The average AUC of MRA for the three readers was significantly higher than that of MDCTA (p = 0.030). CONCLUSION Coronary MRA has higher image quality for coronary segments with nodal calcification than for coronary segments with diffuse calcification. Coronary MRA has better diagnostic performance than coronary MDCTA for the detection of significant stenosis in patients with high calcium scores.
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Kressler B, Spincemaille P, Nguyen TD, Cheng L, Xi Hai Z, Prince MR, Wang Y. Three-dimensional cine imaging using variable-density spiral trajectories and SSFP with application to coronary artery angiography. Magn Reson Med 2007; 58:535-43. [PMID: 17763360 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A single breath-hold 3D cardiac phase resolved steady-state free precession (SSFP) sequence was developed, allowing 3D visualization of the moving coronary arteries. A 3D stack of spirals was acquired continuously throughout the cardiac cycle, and a sliding window reconstruction was used to achieve high temporal resolution. A coil specific field of view reconstruction technique was combined with Parallel Imaging with Localized Sensitivities (PILS) to allow acquisition of a reduced field of view. A view ordering incorporating fat suppression was employed to allow use of sliding window reconstruction. The technique was evaluated on healthy volunteers (n=8), yielding images with 102 ms temporal resolution and 1.35 mm in-plane resolution, and reasonable visualization of the left and right coronary arteries was achieved.
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- Bryan Kressler
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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