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Shaw JL, Nelson MD, Wei J, Motwani M, Landes S, Mehta PK, Thomson LEJ, Berman DS, Li D, Bairey Merz CN, Sharif B. Inverse association of MRI-derived native myocardial T1 and perfusion reserve index in women with evidence of ischemia and no obstructive CAD: A pilot study. Int J Cardiol 2018; 270:48-53. [PMID: 30041981 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.06.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Revised: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 06/19/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND It has recently been shown that magnetic resonance (MR) "native T1" mapping is capable of characterizing abnormal microcirculation in patients with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). In studies involving women with signs and symptoms of ischemia and no obstructive CAD (INOCA), however, the potential role of native T1 as an imaging marker and its association with indices of diastolic function or vasodilator-induced myocardial ischemia have not been explored. We investigated whether native T1 in INOCA is associated with reduced myocardial perfusion reserve index (MPRI) or with diastolic dysfunction. METHODS Twenty-two female patients with INOCA and twelve female reference controls with matching age and body-mass index were studied. The patients had evidence of vasodilator-induced ischemia without obstructive CAD or any prior infarction. All 34 subjects underwent stress/rest MR including native T1 mapping (MOLLI 5(3)3) at 1.5-Tesla. RESULTS Compared with controls, patients had similar morphology/function. As expected, MPRI was significantly reduced in patients compared to controls (1.78 ± 0.39 vs. 2.49 ± 0.41, p < 0.0001). Native T1 was significantly elevated in patients (1040.1 ± 29.3 ms vs. 1003.8 ± 18.5 ms, p < 0.001) and the increased T1 showed a significant inverse correlation with MPRI (r = -0.481, p = 0.004), but was not correlated with reduced diastolic strain rate. CONCLUSIONS Symptomatic women with INOCA have elevated native T1 compared to matched reference controls and there is a significant association between elevated native T1 and impaired MPRI, considered a surrogate measure of ischemia severity in this cohort. Future studies in a larger cohort are needed to elucidate the mechanism underlying this inverse relationship.
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- Jaime L Shaw
- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging can be used to characterize fibrosis, oedema, ischaemia, inflammation and other disease conditions. However, the need to reduce artefacts arising from body motion through a combination of electrocardiography (ECG) control, respiration control, and contrast-weighting selection makes CMR exams lengthy. Here, we show that physiological motions and other dynamic processes can be conceptualized as multiple time dimensions that can be resolved via low-rank tensor imaging, allowing for motion-resolved quantitative imaging with up to four time dimensions. This continuous-acquisition approach, which we name cardiovascular MR multitasking, captures — rather than avoids — motion, relaxation and other dynamics to efficiently perform quantitative CMR without the use of ECG triggering or breath holds. We demonstrate that CMR multitasking allows for T1 mapping, T1-T2 mapping and time-resolved T1 mapping of myocardial perfusion without ECG information and/or in free-breathing conditions. CMR multitasking may provide a foundation for the development of setup-free CMR imaging for the quantitative evaluation of cardiovascular health.
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Likhite D, Suksaranjit P, Adluru G, Hu N, Weng C, Kholmovski E, McGann C, Wilson B, DiBella E. Interstudy repeatability of self-gated quantitative myocardial perfusion MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 43:1369-78. [PMID: 26663511 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the interstudy repeatability of multislice quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial blood flow (MBF), myocardial perfusion reserve (MPR), and extracellular volume (ECV). A unique saturation recovery self-gated acquisition was used for the perfusion scans. MATERIALS AND METHODS An ungated golden angle radial turboFLASH pulse sequence was used to scan 10 subjects on two separate days on a 3T scanner. A single saturation pulse was followed by a set of four slices. Rest and hyperemia scans were acquired during free breathing. The images were reconstructed using an iterative algorithm with spatiotemporal constraints. The ungated images were retrospectively binned (self-gated) into near-systole and near-diastole. Deformable registration was performed to adjust for respiratory and residual cardiac motion, and the data were fit with a Fermi model to estimate the interstudy repeatability of quantitative self-gated MBF and MPR. RESULTS The coefficient of variation (CoV) of the territorial MPR using the self-gated near-systole data was 18.6%. The self-gated near-diastole data gave less good CoV of MPR, equal to 46.2%. For MBFs, and using smaller (segmental) regions, the CoVs were 20.1% and 22.7% for the estimation of myocardial blood flow at stress and rest, respectively, using the self-gated near-systole data. The self-gated near-diastole data gave CoV = 48.6% and 44.9% for stress and rest. CONCLUSION The self-gated free-breathing technique for quantification of myocardial blood flow showed good repeatability for near-systole, with results comparable to published studies on interstudy repeatability of quantitative myocardial perfusion MRI using ECG-gating and breath-holds. Self-gated near-diastole data results were less repeatable. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;43:1369-1378.
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- Devavrat Likhite
- Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Wissmann L, Niemann M, Gotschy A, Manka R, Kozerke S. Quantitative three-dimensional myocardial perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance with accurate two-dimensional arterial input function assessment. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2015; 17:108. [PMID: 26637221 PMCID: PMC4669617 DOI: 10.1186/s12968-015-0212-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Quantification of myocardial perfusion from first-pass cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images at high contrast agent (CA) dose requires separate acquisition of blood pool and myocardial tissue enhancement. In this study, a dual-sequence approach interleaving 2D imaging of the arterial input function with high-resolution 3D imaging for myocardial perfusion assessment is presented and validated for low and high CA dose. METHODS A dual-sequence approach interleaving 2D imaging of the aortic root and 3D imaging of the whole left ventricle using highly accelerated k-t PCA was implemented. Rest perfusion imaging was performed in ten healthy volunteers after administration of a Gadolinium-based CA at low (0.025 mmol/kg b.w.) and high dose (0.1 mmol/kg b.w.). Arterial input functions extracted from the 2D and 3D images were analysed for both doses. Myocardial contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR) were compared across volunteers and doses. Variations of myocardial perfusion estimates between volunteers and across myocardial territories were studied. RESULTS High CA dose imaging resulted in strong non-linearity of the arterial input function in the 3D images at peak CA concentration, which was avoided when the input function was derived from the 2D images. Myocardial CNR was significantly increased at high dose compared to low dose, with a 2.6-fold mean CNR gain. Most robust myocardial blood flow estimation was achieved using the arterial input function extracted from the 2D image at high CA dose. In this case, myocardial blood flow estimates varied by 24% between volunteers and by 20% between myocardial territories when analysed on a per-volunteer basis. CONCLUSION Interleaving 2D imaging for arterial input function assessment enables robust quantitative 3D myocardial perfusion imaging at high CA dose.
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- Lukas Wissmann
- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Clinic of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Furtwangen University, Faculty Mechanical and Medical Engineering, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Clinic of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Clinic of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, UK.
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Chen D, Sharif B, Bi X, Wei J, Thomson LEJ, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Quantification of myocardial blood flow using non-electrocardiogram-triggered MRI with three-slice coverage. Magn Reson Med 2015; 75:2112-20. [PMID: 26059326 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE Accurate quantification of myocardial perfusion is dependent on reliable electrocardiogram (ECG) triggering. Measuring myocardial blood flow (MBF) in patients with arrhythmias or poor ECGs is currently infeasible with MR. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of a non-ECG-triggered method with clinically useful three-slice ventricular coverage for measurement of MBF in healthy volunteers. METHODS A saturation recovery magnetization-prepared gradient recalled echo acquisition was continuously repeated during first-pass imaging. A slice-interleaved radial trajectory was employed to enable image-based retrospective triggering. The arterial input function was generated using a beat-by-beat T1 estimation method. The proposed technique was validated against a conventional ECG-triggered dual-bolus technique in 10 healthy volunteers. The technique was further demonstrated under adenosine stress in 12 healthy volunteers. RESULTS The proposed method produced MBF with no significant difference compared with the ECG-triggered technique. The proposed method yielded mean myocardial perfusion reserve comparable to published literature. CONCLUSION We have developed a non-ECG-triggered quantitative perfusion imaging method. In this preliminary study, our results demonstrate that our method yields comparable MBF compared with the conventional ECG-triggered method and that it is feasible for stress imaging.
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- David Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- MR R&D, Siemens Healthcare, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Barbara Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Barbara Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.,S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.,David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Likhite D, Adluru G, Hu N, McGann C, DiBella E. Quantification of myocardial perfusion with self-gated cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2015; 17:14. [PMID: 25827080 PMCID: PMC4325943 DOI: 10.1186/s12968-015-0109-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2014] [Accepted: 12/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Current myocardial perfusion measurements make use of an ECG-gated pulse sequence to track the uptake and washout of a gadolinium-based contrast agent. The use of a gated acquisition is a problem in situations with a poor ECG signal. Recently, an ungated perfusion acquisition was proposed but it is not known how accurately quantitative perfusion estimates can be made from such datasets that are acquired without any triggering signal. METHODS An undersampled saturation recovery radial turboFLASH pulse sequence was used in 7 subjects to acquire dynamic contrast-enhanced images during free-breathing. A single saturation pulse was followed by acquisition of 4-5 slices after a delay of ~40 msec. This was repeated without pause and without any type of gating. The same pulse sequence, with ECG-gating, was used to acquire gated data as a ground truth. An iterative spatio-temporal constrained reconstruction was used to reconstruct the undersampled images. After reconstruction, the ungated images were retrospectively binned ("self-gated") into two cardiac phases using a region of interest based technique and deformably registered into near-systole and near-diastole. The gated and the self-gated datasets were then quantified with standard methods. RESULTS Regional myocardial blood flow estimates (MBFs) obtained using self-gated systole (0.64 ± 0.26 ml/min/g), self-gated diastole (0.64 ± 0.26 ml/min/g), and ECG-gated scans (0.65 ± 0.28 ml/min/g) were similar. Based on the criteria for interchangeable methods listed in the statistical analysis section, the MBF values estimated from self-gated and gated methods were not significantly different. CONCLUSION The self-gated technique for quantification of regional myocardial perfusion matched ECG-gated perfusion measurements well in normal subjects at rest. Self-gated systolic perfusion values matched ECG-gated perfusion values better than did diastolic values.
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- Devavrat Likhite
- />Department of Radiology, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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- />Department of Radiology, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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- />Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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- />Division of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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- />Department of Radiology, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
- />Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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