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Mohammadi E, Nasiraei-Moghaddam A, Uecker M. Real-time radial tagging for quantification of left ventricular torsion. Magn Reson Med 2022; 87:2741-2756. [PMID: 35081262 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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PURPOSE To develop a real-time radial tagging MRI for accurate measurement of rotational motion and twist of the left ventricle (LV). METHODS A FLASH-based radial tagging sequence with an undersampled radial reading scheme was developed for both single and double-slice imaging in real-time. The Polar Fourier Transform was used for reconstruction to push the undersampling artifacts out of a reduced FOV. The developed technique was used to image five normal subjects during rest, plus one during both exercise and rest conditions. LV rotational motions were estimated for five consecutive cardiac cycles in all cases. The process was validated using a numerical phantom. The real-time measurement of global rotational motion was compared with those measured from a non-real-time exam using linear regression analysis and the Bland-Altman plot. RESULTS The real-time acquisition was performed successfully with a temporal resolution of 46.2 ms. Image quality was sufficient for the reproducible calculation of rotation at rest and exercise. The feasibility of double-slice acquisition on human was further studied and a real-time twist of the left ventricle was demonstrated. The difference between LV global rotations from real-time and non-real-time approaches was 0.27 degrees. A significant reverse recoiling, induced by exercise, was reproducibly measured by the technique. CONCLUSION A real-time radial tagging MRI technique was developed based on the undersampled radial acquisition and Polar Fourier Transform reconstruction, for accurate measuring of the heart rotational motion and twist. The technique was able to extract a meaningful change of diastolic recoiling under stress test conditions during physical activities (cycling).
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- Elham Mohammadi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Berberoğlu E, Stoeck CT, Moireau P, Kozerke S, Genet M. In-silico study of accuracy and precision of left-ventricular strain quantification from 3D tagged MRI. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0258965. [PMID: 34739495 PMCID: PMC8570486 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allows quantifying myocardial tissue deformation and strain based on the tagging principle. In this work, we investigate accuracy and precision of strain quantification from synthetic 3D tagged MRI using equilibrated warping. To this end, synthetic biomechanical left-ventricular tagged MRI data with varying tag distance, spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were generated and processed to quantify errors in radial, circumferential and longitudinal strains relative to ground truth. Results reveal that radial strain is more sensitive to image resolution and noise than the other strain components. The study also shows robustness of quantifying circumferential and longitudinal strain in the presence of geometrical inconsistencies of 3D tagged data. In conclusion, our study points to the need for higher-resolution 3D tagged MRI than currently available in practice in order to achieve sufficient accuracy of radial strain quantification.
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- Ezgi Berberoğlu
- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- MΞDISIM team, Inria, Palaiseau, France
- Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides (LMS), École Polytechnique, C.N.R.S., Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- MΞDISIM team, Inria, Palaiseau, France
- Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides (LMS), École Polytechnique, C.N.R.S., Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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OBJECTIVE. A spectrum of pathophysiologic mechanisms can lead to the development of myocardial disorders including ischemia, genetic abnormalities, and systemic disorders. Cardiac MRI identifies different myocardial disorders, provides prognostic information, and directs therapy. In comparison with other imaging modalities, cardiac MRI has the advantage of allowing both functional assessment and tissues characterization in a single examination without the use of ionizing radiation. Newer cardiac MRI techniques including mapping can provide additional information about myocardial disease that may not be detected using conventional techniques. Emerging techniques including MR spectroscopy and finger printing will likely change the way we understand the pathophysiology mechanisms of the wide array of myocardial disorders. CONCLUSION. Imaging of myocardial disorders encompasses a large variety of conditions including both ischemic and nonischemic diseases. Cardiac MRI sequences, such as balanced steady-state free precession and late gadolinium enhancement, play a critical role in establishing diagnosis, determining prognosis, and guiding therapeutic management. Additional sequences-including perfusion imaging, T2*, real-time cine, and T2-weighted sequences-should be performed in specific clinical scenarios. There is emerging evidence for the use of mapping in imaging of myocardial disease. Multiple other new techniques are currently being studied. These novel techniques will likely change the way myocardial disorders are understood and diagnosed in the near future.
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Faragli A, Tanacli R, Kolp C, Lapinskas T, Stehning C, Schnackenburg B, Lo Muzio FP, Perna S, Pieske B, Nagel E, Post H, Kelle S, Alogna A. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking in pigs: a reproducibility and sample size calculation study. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2020; 36:703-712. [PMID: 31950298 PMCID: PMC7125242 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-020-01767-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) is a novel technique for non-invasive assessment of myocardial motion and deformation. Although CMR-FT is standardized in humans, literature on comparative analysis from animal models is scarce. In this study, we measured the reproducibility of global strain under various inotropic states and the sample size needed to test its relative changes in pigs. Ten anesthetized healthy Landrace pigs were investigated. After baseline (BL), two further steps were performed: (I) dobutamine-induced hyper-contractility (Dob) and (II) verapamil-induced hypocontractility (Ver). Global longitudinal (GLS), circumferential (GCS) and radial strain (GRS) were assessed. This study shows a good to excellent inter- and intra-observer reproducibility of CMR-FT in pigs under various inotropic states. The highest inter-observer reproducibility was observed for GLS at both BL (ICC 0.88) and Ver (ICC 0.79). According to the sample size calculation for GLS, a small number of animals could be used for future trials.
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- A Faragli
- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Cardiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eiveniu Street 2, 50161, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Röntgenstr. 24, 22335, Hamburg, Germany
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- Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Röntgenstr. 24, 22335, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Dentistry, Paedriatics and Gynaecology, University of Verona, Via S. Francesco 22, 37129, Verona, Italy.,Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Bahrain, Sakhir Campus, P.O. Box 32038, Zallaq, Bahrain
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Translational Cardiac Imaging, DZHK Centre for Cardiovascular Imaging, Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Cardiology, Contilia Heart and Vessel Centre, St. Marien-Hospital Mülheim, Kaiserstraße 50, 45468, Mülheim, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany. .,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany. .,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site, Berlin, Germany.
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Gong IY, Al-Amro B, Prasad GVR, Connelly PW, Wald RM, Wald R, Deva DP, Leong-Poi H, Nash MM, Yuan W, Gunaratnam L, Kim SJ, Lok CE, Connelly KA, Yan AT. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance left ventricular strain in end-stage renal disease patients after kidney transplantation. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2018; 20:83. [PMID: 30554567 PMCID: PMC6296102 DOI: 10.1186/s12968-018-0504-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and kidney transplant (KT) patients. Compared with left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF), LV strain has emerged as an important marker of LV function as it is less load dependent. We sought to evaluate changes in LV strain using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in ESRD patients who received KT, to determine whether KT may improve LV function. METHODS We conducted a prospective multi-centre longitudinal study of 79 ESRD patients (40 on dialysis, 39 underwent KT). CMR was performed at baseline and at 12 months after KT. RESULTS Among 79 participants (mean age 55 years; 30% women), KT patients had significant improvement in global circumferential strain (GCS) (p = 0.007) and global radial strain (GRS) (p = 0.003), but a decline in global longitudinal strain (GLS) over 12 months (p = 0.026), while no significant change in any LV strain was observed in the ongoing dialysis group. For KT patients, the improvement in LV strain paralleled improvement in LVEF (57.4 ± 6.4% at baseline, 60.6% ± 6.9% at 12 months; p = 0.001). For entire cohort, over 12 months, change in LVEF was significantly correlated with change in GCS (Spearman's r = - 0.42, p < 0.001), GRS (Spearman's r = 0.64, p < 0.001), and GLS (Spearman's r = - 0.34, p = 0.002). Improvements in GCS and GRS over 12 months were significantly correlated with reductions in LV end-diastolic volume index and LV end-systolic volume index (all p < 0.05), but not with change in blood pressure (all p > 0.10). CONCLUSIONS Compared with continuation of dialysis, KT was associated with significant improvements in LV strain metrics of GCS and GRS after 12 months, which did not correlate with blood pressure change. This supports the notion that KT has favorable effects on LV function beyond volume and blood pessure control. Larger studies with longer follow-up are needed to confirm these findings.
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- Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Nephrology, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Nephrology, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medical Imaging, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Cardiology, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Rm 6-030 Donnelly, Toronto, M5B 1W8 Canada
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Gong IY, Ong G, Brezden-Masley C, Dhir V, Deva DP, Chan KKW, Graham JJ, Chow CM, Thavendiranathan P, Dai D, Ng MY, Barfett JJ, Connelly KA, Yan AT. Early diastolic strain rate measurements by cardiac MRI in breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab: a longitudinal study. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2018; 35:653-662. [PMID: 30390170 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-018-1482-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
We evaluated temporal changes in early diastolic strain rates by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) as an early detector of trastuzumab-induced ventricular dysfunction. We conducted a prospective, multi-centre, longitudinal observational study of 41 trastuzumab-treated breast cancer women who underwent serial CMR (baseline, 6, 12, and 18 months). Two blinded readers independently measured left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), peak systolic strain parameters (global longitudinal strain [GLS] and global circumferential strain [GCS]), and early diastolic strain rate parameters (global longitudinal diastolic strain rate [GLSR-E], global circumferential diastolic strain rate [GCSR-E], and global radial diastolic strain rate [GRSR-E]), by feature tracking (FT-CMR) using CMR42. There was a significant decline in peak systolic strain GLS and GCS at 6 months (p = 0.024 and p < 0.001, respectively) and 12 months (p = 0.002 and p < 0.001, respectively), followed by recovery at 18 months, which paralleled decline in LVEF at 6 months (p = 0.034) and 12 months (p = 0.012). Conversely, early diastolic strain rates GLSR-E and GCSR-E did not significantly change over 18 months (p > 0.10), while GRSR-E was marginally significant at 12 months (p = 0.021). There was no significant correlation between changes at 6 months in LVEF and GLSR-E or GRSR-E (p > 0.10), and a marginally significant weak correlation between LVEF and GCSR-E (p = 0.046). Among trastuzumab-treated patients without overt cardiotoxicity, there was no consistent temporal change in FT-CMR-derived diastolic strain rate parameters up to 18 months, in contrast to decline in systolic strain and LVEF. Systolic strains by FT-CMR are likely more useful than diastolic strain rates for monitoring subclinical trastuzumab-related myocardial dysfunction.ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT01022086.
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- Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Division of Hematology/Oncology, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Medical Imaging, Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, Canadian Center for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. .,Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. .,Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Rm 6-030 Donnelly, Toronto, M5B 1W8, Canada.
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Laksari K, Kurt M, Babaee H, Kleiven S, Camarillo D. Mechanistic Insights into Human Brain Impact Dynamics through Modal Analysis. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:138101. [PMID: 29694192 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.138101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Although concussion is one of the greatest health challenges today, our physical understanding of the cause of injury is limited. In this Letter, we simulated football head impacts in a finite element model and extracted the most dominant modal behavior of the brain's deformation. We showed that the brain's deformation is most sensitive in low frequency regimes close to 30 Hz, and discovered that for most subconcussive head impacts, the dynamics of brain deformation is dominated by a single global mode. In this Letter, we show the existence of localized modes and multimodal behavior in the brain as a hyperviscoelastic medium. This dynamical phenomenon leads to strain concentration patterns, particularly in deep brain regions, which is consistent with reported concussion pathology.
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- Kaveh Laksari
- Department of Bioemedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 95719, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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- Division of Neuronic Engineering, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge 114 28, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking in small animals - a preliminary study on reproducibility and sample size calculation. BMC Med Imaging 2017; 17:51. [PMID: 28835220 PMCID: PMC5569535 DOI: 10.1186/s12880-017-0223-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) is a novel tissue tracking technique developed for noninvasive assessment of myocardial motion and deformation. This preliminary study aimed to evaluate the observer’s reproducibility of CMR-FT in a small animal (mouse) model and define sample size calculation for future trials. Methods Six C57BL/6 J mice were selected from the ongoing experimental mouse model onsite and underwent CMR with a 3 Tesla small animal MRI scanner. Myocardial deformation was analyzed using dedicated software (TomTec, Germany) by two observers. Left ventricular (LV) longitudinal, circumferential and radial strain (EllLAX, EccSAX and ErrSAX) were calculated. To assess intra-observer agreement data analysis was repeated after 4 weeks. The sample size required to detect a relative change in strain was calculated. Results In general, EccSAX and EllLAX demonstrated highest inter-observer reproducibility (ICC 0.79 (0.46–0.91) and 0.73 (0.56–0.83) EccSAX and EllLAX respectively). In contrast, at the intra-observer level EllLAX was more reproducible than EccSAX (ICC 0.83 (0.73–0.90) and 0.74 (0.49–0.87) EllLAX and EccSAX respectively). The reproducibility of ErrSAX was weak at both observer levels. Preliminary sample size calculation showed that a small study sample (e.g. ten animals to detect a relative 10% change in EccSAX) could be sufficient to detect changes if parameter variability is low. Conclusions This pilot study demonstrates good to excellent inter- and intra-observer reproducibility of CMR-FT technique in small animal model. The most reproducible measures are global circumferential and global longitudinal strain, whereas reproducibility of radial strain is weak. Furthermore, sample size calculation demonstrates that a small number of animals could be sufficient for future trials.
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Golshani S, Nasiraei-Moghaddam A. Efficient radial tagging CMR exam: A coherent k-space reading and image reconstruction approach. Magn Reson Med 2016; 77:1459-1472. [PMID: 27052351 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2015] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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PURPOSE Cardiac MR tagging techniques, which facilitate the strain evaluation, have not yet been widely adopted in clinics due to inefficiencies in acquisition and postprocessing. This problem may be alleviated by exploiting the coherency in the three steps of tagging: preparation, acquisition, and reconstruction. Herein, we propose a fully polar-based tagging approach that may lead to real-time strain mapping. METHODS Radial readout trajectories were used to acquire radial tagging images and a Hankel-based algorithm, referred to as Polar Fourier Transform (PFT), has been adapted for reconstruction of the acquired raw data. In both phantom and human subjects, the overall performance of the method was investigated against radial undersampling and compared with the conventional reconstruction methods. RESULTS Radially tagged images were reconstructed by the proposed PFT method from as few as 24 spokes with normalized root-mean-square-error of less than 3%. The reconstructed images showed a central focusing behavior, where the undersampling effects were pushed to the peripheral areas out of the central region of interest. Comparing the results with the re-gridding reconstruction technique, superior image quality and high robustness of the method were further established. In addition, a relative increase of 68 ± 2.5% in tagline sharpness was achieved for the PFT images and also higher tagging contrast (72 ± 5.6%), resulted from the well-tolerated undersampling artifacts, was observed in all reconstructions. CONCLUSION The proposed approach led to the acceleration of the acquisition process, which was evaluated for up to eight-fold retrospectively from the fully sampled data. This is promising toward real-time imaging, and in contrast to iterative techniques, the method is consistent with online reconstruction. Magn Reson Med 77:1459-1472, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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Taylor RJ, Moody WE, Umar F, Edwards NC, Taylor TJ, Stegemann B, Townend JN, Hor KN, Steeds RP, Mazur W, Leyva F. Myocardial strain measurement with feature-tracking cardiovascular magnetic resonance: normal values. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2015; 16:871-81. [PMID: 25711353 DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jev006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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AIMS Myocardial deformation is a key to clinical decision-making. Feature-tracking cardiovascular magnetic resonance (FT-CMR) provides quantification of motion and strain using standard steady-state in free-precession (SSFP) imaging, which is part of a routine CMR left ventricular (LV) study protocol. An accepted definition of a normal range is essential if this technique is to enter the clinical arena. METHODS AND RESULTS One hundred healthy individuals, with 10 men and women in each of 5 age deciles from 20 to 70 years, without a history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, renal impairment, or family history of cardiovascular disease, and with a normal stress echocardiogram, underwent FT-CMR assessment of LV myocardial strain and strain rate using SSFP cines.Peak systolic longitudinal strain (Ell) was -21.3 ± 4.8%, peak systolic circumferential strain (Ecc) was -26.1 ± 3.8%, and peak systolic radial strain (Err) was 39.8 ± 8.3%. On Bland-Altman analyses, peak systolic Ecc had the best inter-observer agreement (bias 0.63 ± 1.29% and 95% CI -1.90 to 3.16) and peak systolic Err the least inter-observer agreement (bias 0.13 ± 6.41 and 95% CI -12.44 to 12.71). There was an increase in the magnitude of peak systolic Ecc with advancing age, which was greatest in subjects over the age of 50 years (R(2) = 0.11, P = 0.003). There were significant gender differences (P < 0.001) in peak systolic Ell, with a greater magnitude of deformation in females (-22.7%) than in males (-19.3%). CONCLUSION Normal values for myocardial strain measurements using FT-CMR are provided. All circumferential and longitudinal based variables had excellent intra- and inter-observer variability.
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- Robin J Taylor
- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB, UK Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Magnetic resonance assessment of regional myocardial function is a novel potentially important tool for early identification of cardiac pathology. Many cardiac magnetic resonance techniques have been developed for detection and quantification of regional strain abnormalities including steady-state free-precession CINE, tagging, displacement encoding with stimulated echoes, strain encoding imaging, and feature tracking. Potential clinical applications of magnetic resonance strain imaging include early detection of systolic dysfunction in heart failure patients with both ischemic and nonischemic etiologies.
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Korosoglou G, Giusca S, Gitsioudis G, Erbel C, Katus HA. Cardiac magnetic resonance and computed tomography angiography for clinical imaging of stable coronary artery disease. Diagnostic classification and risk stratification. Front Physiol 2014; 5:291. [PMID: 25147526 PMCID: PMC4123729 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Despite advances in the pharmacologic and interventional treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD), atherosclerosis remains the leading cause of death in Western societies. X-ray coronary angiography has been the modality of choice for diagnosing the presence and extent of CAD. However, this technique is invasive and provides limited information on the composition of atherosclerotic plaque. Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) have emerged as promising non-invasive techniques for the clinical imaging of CAD. Hereby, CCTA allows for visualization of coronary calcification, lumen narrowing and atherosclerotic plaque composition. In this regard, data from the CONFIRM Registry recently demonstrated that both atherosclerotic plaque burden and lumen narrowing exhibit incremental value for the prediction of future cardiac events. However, due to technical limitations with CCTA, resulting in false positive or negative results in the presence of severe calcification or motion artifacts, this technique cannot entirely replace invasive angiography at the present time. CMR on the other hand, provides accurate assessment of the myocardial function due to its high spatial and temporal resolution and intrinsic blood-to-tissue contrast. Hereby, regional wall motion and perfusion abnormalities, during dobutamine or vasodilator stress, precede the development of ST-segment depression and anginal symptoms enabling the detection of functionally significant CAD. While CT generally offers better spatial resolution, the versatility of CMR can provide information on myocardial function, perfusion, and viability, all without ionizing radiation for the patients. Technical developments with these 2 non-invasive imaging tools and their current implementation in the clinical imaging of CAD will be presented and discussed herein.
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Simpson RM, Keegan J, Firmin DN. MR assessment of regional myocardial mechanics. J Magn Reson Imaging 2012; 37:576-99. [PMID: 22826177 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2011] [Accepted: 06/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Regional myocardial function can be measured by several MR techniques including tissue tagging, phase velocity mapping, and more recently, displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) and strain encoding (SENC). Each of these techniques was developed separately and has undergone significant change since its original implementation. As a result, in the current literature, the common features and the differences between the techniques and what they measure are often unclear and confusing. This review article delivers an extensively referenced introductory text which clarifies the current methodology from the starting point of the Bloch equations. By doing this in a consistent way for each method, the similarities and differences between them are highlighted. In addition, their capabilities and limitations are discussed, together with their relative advantages and disadvantages. While the focus is on sequence design and development, the principal parameters measured by each technique are also summarized, together with brief results, with the reader being directed to the extensive literature on data processing and clinical applications for more detail.
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- Robin M Simpson
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Hospital Trust, London, United Kingdom.
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Update on Dobutamine Stress Magnetic Resonance. CURRENT CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING REPORTS 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s12410-012-9126-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Botnar RM, Makowski MR. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in small animals. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2012; 105:227-61. [PMID: 22137434 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-394596-9.00008-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Noninvasive imaging studies involving small animals are becoming increasingly important in preclinical pharmacological, genetic, and biomedical cardiovascular research. Especially small animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using high field and clinical MRI systems has gained significant importance in recent years. Compared to other imaging modalities, like computer tomography, MRI can provide an excellent soft tissue contrast, which enables the characterization of different kinds of tissues without the use of contrast agents. In addition, imaging can be performed with high spatial and temporal resolution. Small animal MRI cannot only provide anatomical information about the beating murine heart; it can also provide functional and molecular information, which makes it a unique imaging modality. Compared to clinical MRI examinations in humans, small animal MRI is associated with additional challenges. These included a smaller size of all cardiovascular structures and a up to ten times higher heart rate. Dedicated small animal monitoring devices make a reliable cardiac triggering and respiratory gating feasible. MRI in combination with molecular probes enables the noninvasive imaging of biological processes at a molecular level. Different kinds of iron oxide or gadolinium-based contrast agents can be used for this purpose. Compared to other molecular imaging modalities, like single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET), MRI can also provide imaging with high spatial resolution, which is of high importance for the assessment of the cardiovascular system. The sensitivity for detection of MRI contrast agents is however lower compared to sensitivity of radiation associated techniques like PET and SPECT. This chapter is divided into the following sections: (1) "Introduction," (2) "Principals of Magnetic Resonance Imaging," (3) "MRI Systems for Preclinical Imaging and Experimental Setup," and (4) "Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging."
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- René M Botnar
- Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Ibrahim ESH. Myocardial tagging by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: evolution of techniques--pulse sequences, analysis algorithms, and applications. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2011; 13:36. [PMID: 21798021 PMCID: PMC3166900 DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-13-36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2011] [Accepted: 07/28/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging has been established as an essential technique for measuring regional myocardial function. It allows quantification of local intramyocardial motion measures, e.g. strain and strain rate. The invention of CMR tagging came in the late eighties, where the technique allowed for the first time for visualizing transmural myocardial movement without having to implant physical markers. This new idea opened the door for a series of developments and improvements that continue up to the present time. Different tagging techniques are currently available that are more extensive, improved, and sophisticated than they were twenty years ago. Each of these techniques has different versions for improved resolution, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), scan time, anatomical coverage, three-dimensional capability, and image quality. The tagging techniques covered in this article can be broadly divided into two main categories: 1) Basic techniques, which include magnetization saturation, spatial modulation of magnetization (SPAMM), delay alternating with nutations for tailored excitation (DANTE), and complementary SPAMM (CSPAMM); and 2) Advanced techniques, which include harmonic phase (HARP), displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE), and strain encoding (SENC). Although most of these techniques were developed by separate groups and evolved from different backgrounds, they are in fact closely related to each other, and they can be interpreted from more than one perspective. Some of these techniques even followed parallel paths of developments, as illustrated in the article. As each technique has its own advantages, some efforts have been made to combine different techniques together for improved image quality or composite information acquisition. In this review, different developments in pulse sequences and related image processing techniques are described along with the necessities that led to their invention, which makes this article easy to read and the covered techniques easy to follow. Major studies that applied CMR tagging for studying myocardial mechanics are also summarized. Finally, the current article includes a plethora of ideas and techniques with over 300 references that motivate the reader to think about the future of CMR tagging.
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Long-Term Prognostic Value of Dobutamine Stress CMR. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2011; 4:161-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2010] [Accepted: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Current and future role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in cardiac resynchronization therapy. Heart Fail Rev 2011; 16:251-62. [DOI: 10.1007/s10741-010-9213-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Price AN, Cheung KK, Cleary JO, Campbell AE, Riegler J, Lythgoe MF. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in experimental models. Open Cardiovasc Med J 2010; 4:278-92. [PMID: 21331311 PMCID: PMC3040459 DOI: 10.2174/1874192401004010278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2010] [Revised: 09/27/2010] [Accepted: 10/04/2010] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is the modality of choice for clinical studies of the heart and vasculature, offering detailed images of both structure and function with high temporal resolution. Small animals are increasingly used for genetic and translational research, in conjunction with models of common pathologies such as myocardial infarction. In all cases, effective methods for characterising a wide range of functional and anatomical parameters are crucial for robust studies. CMR is the gold-standard for the non-invasive examination of these models, although physiological differences, such as rapid heart rate, make this a greater challenge than conventional clinical imaging. However, with the help of specialised magnetic resonance (MR) systems, novel gating strategies and optimised pulse sequences, high-quality images can be obtained in these animals despite their small size. In this review, we provide an overview of the principal CMR techniques for small animals for example cine, angiography and perfusion imaging, which can provide measures such as ejection fraction, vessel anatomy and local blood flow, respectively. In combination with MR contrast agents, regional dysfunction in the heart can also be identified and assessed. We also discuss optimal methods for analysing CMR data, particularly the use of semi-automated tools for parameter measurement to reduce analysis time. Finally, we describe current and emerging methods for imaging the developing heart, aiding characterisation of congenital cardiovascular defects. Advanced small animal CMR now offers an unparalleled range of cardiovascular assessments. Employing these methods should allow new insights into the structural, functional and molecular basis of the cardiovascular system.
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- Anthony N Price
- UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Department of Medicine and UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
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Leyva F. Cardiac resynchronization therapy guided by cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2010; 12:64. [PMID: 21062491 PMCID: PMC2994940 DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-12-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment for patients with symptomatic heart failure, severely impaired left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and a wide (> 120 ms) complex. As with any other treatment, the response to CRT is variable. The degree of pre-implant mechanical dyssynchrony, scar burden and scar localization to the vicinity of the LV pacing stimulus are known to influence response and outcome. In addition to its recognized role in the assessment of LV structure and function as well as myocardial scar, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can be used to quantify global and regional LV dyssynchrony. This review focuses on the role of CMR in the assessment of patients undergoing CRT, with emphasis on risk stratification and LV lead deployment.
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- Francisco Leyva
- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham, UK.
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Charoenpanichkit C, Hundley WG. The 20 year evolution of dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2010; 12:59. [PMID: 20977757 PMCID: PMC2984575 DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-12-59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2010] [Accepted: 10/26/2010] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Over the past 20 years, investigators world-wide have developed and utilized dobutamine magnetic resonance stress testing procedures for the purpose of identifying ischemia, viability, and cardiac prognosis. This article traces these developments and reviews the data utilized to substantiate this relatively new noninvasive imaging procedure.
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- Charaslak Charoenpanichkit
- Department of Internal Medicine Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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Kramer U, Hennemuth A, Fenchel M. [Myocardial MR tagging: analysis of regional and global myocardial function]. Radiologe 2010; 50:532-40. [PMID: 20393692 DOI: 10.1007/s00117-010-1989-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Myocardial MR tagging is a powerful method which allows for assessment of myocardial function and may become an important tool for clinical evaluation of cardiac dysfunction, particularly in ischemic heart disease. In addition to visual assessment it allows direct quantification of myocardial deformation and strain to measure contractility. The use of myocardial tagging has provided new insights into the (patho)physiology of regional wall motion, and several parameters have been described as being useful to identify an ischemic response of the myocardium. One challenge encountered with tagging at 1.5 T is the fading of tags at end-diastole, greatly limiting the evaluation of myocardial function during diastole. Due to longer T(1) relaxation times of the myocardium, tagging at 3 T has shown to have a higher CNR(Tag) and better tag persistence when compared to current clinical gradient-echo tagging protocols at 1.5 T. As a consequence, tagging at higher field strengths may be well suited for the characterization of the diastolic portion of the cardiac cycle in future applications.
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- U Kramer
- Abt. für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Radiologische Klinik, Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 Tübingen.
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Kramer CM, Hundley WG. Steadily straining toward clinical utility: real-time quantitative CMR of myocardial deformation during stress. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2010; 3:372-4. [PMID: 20394898 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2009] [Accepted: 12/31/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Makowski MR, Wiethoff AJ, Jansen CHP, Botnar RM. Cardiovascular MRI in small animals. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2010; 8:35-47. [PMID: 20014933 DOI: 10.1586/erc.09.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Imaging studies of cardiovascular disease in small rodents have become a prerequisite in preclinical cardiovascular research. Transgenic and gene-knockout models of cardiovascular diseases enables the investigation of the influence of single genes or groups of genes on disease pathogenesis. In addition, experimental and genetically altered models provide valuable in vivo platforms to investigate the efficacy of novel drugs and contrast agents. Owing to the excellent soft tissue contrast, high spatial and temporal resolution, as well as the tomographic nature of MRI, anatomy and function can be assessed with unique accuracy and reproducibility. Furthermore, using novel targeted MRI contrast agents, molecular changes associated with cardiovascular disease can be investigated in the same imaging session. This review focuses on recent advances in hardware, imaging sequences and probe design.
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- Marcus R Makowski
- Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College London, 4th Floor, Lambeth Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK.
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A new methodology for multiscale myocardial deformation and strain analysis based on tagging MRI. Int J Biomed Imaging 2010; 2010:341242. [PMID: 20204157 PMCID: PMC2829745 DOI: 10.1155/2010/341242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2009] [Accepted: 11/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Myocardial deformation and strain can be investigated using suitably encoded
cine MRI that admits disambiguation of material motion. Practical limitations
currently restrict the analysis to in-plane motion in cross-sections of the heart
(2D + time), but the proposed method readily generalizes to 3D + time. We propose
a new, promising methodology, which departs from a multiscale algorithm that
exploits local scale selection so as to obtain a robust estimate for the velocity
gradient tensor field. Time evolution of the deformation tensor is governed by a
first-order ordinary differential equation, which is completely determined by this
velocity gradient tensor field. We solve this matrix-ODE analytically and present
results obtained from healthy volunteers as well as from patient data. The proposed
method requires only off-the-shelf algorithms and is readily applicable to planar or
volumetric tagging MRI sampled on arbitrary coordinate grids.
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Prognostic Value of Myocardial Infarct Size and Contractile Reserve Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54:1770-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2009] [Revised: 07/13/2009] [Accepted: 07/23/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The gold standard for noninvasive imaging in coronary heart disease: magnetic resonance imaging. Curr Opin Cardiol 2009; 24:567-79. [DOI: 10.1097/hco.0b013e3283315553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Chang SA, Chang HJ, Choi SI, Chun EJ, Yoon YE, Kim HK, Kim YJ, Choi DJ, Sohn DW, Helm RH, Lardo AC. Usefulness of left ventricular dyssynchrony after acute myocardial infarction, assessed by a tagging magnetic resonance image derived metric, as a determinant of ventricular remodeling. Am J Cardiol 2009; 104:19-23. [PMID: 19576315 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.02.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2008] [Revised: 02/23/2009] [Accepted: 02/23/2009] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Development of left ventricular (LV) remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a serious medical complication. We investigated the correlation of LV dyssynchrony after AMI with LV remodeling using magnetic resonance-myocardial tagging (MR-MT) derived dyssynchrony index (circumferential uniformity ratio estimate [CURE]). Forty-three patients diagnosed with ST-elevation AMI were analyzed. After treatment with primary percutaneous intervention, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed to obtain a cine image, a delayed enhancement image, and an MR-MT image. CURE as a dyssynchrony index was calculated from the MR-MT image using HARP software (CURE 0 to 1 = dyssynchrony to synchrony). After 6 months, follow-up cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed to assess degree of LV remodeling. Sixteen patients (37%) had an increased LV end-systolic volume (ESV) >15% compared with baseline. The baseline LV dyssynchrony index, CURE, was significantly associated with ESV at 6 months (r = -0.49, p <0.001) and weakly correlated with change in ESV (percentage) compared with baseline values (r = -0.26, p = 0.08). Multivariate analysis showed that CURE was associated only with change in ESV (beta -0.39, p = 0.03). Subgroup analysis for patients with nonviable myocardium (infarct thickness >75%, n = 31) showed that this correlation was stronger (beta -0.52, p = 0.006), suggesting that CURE could predict progression of LV remodeling in patients with AMI and nonviable myocardium. LV dyssynchrony immediately after AMI is an important determinant of LV remodeling. In conclusion, the MR-MT dyssynchrony index, CURE, might be useful for prediction of LV remodeling in patients with AMI.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary
- Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers/therapeutic use
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/therapeutic use
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/diagnosis
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/etiology
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology
- Female
- Humans
- Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/diagnosis
- Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/etiology
- Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/physiopathology
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multivariate Analysis
- Myocardial Infarction/pathology
- Myocardial Infarction/physiopathology
- Myocardial Infarction/therapy
- Prospective Studies
- Statistics as Topic
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/diagnosis
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/etiology
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/physiopathology
- Ventricular Remodeling
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- Sung-A Chang
- Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
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Agarwal HK, Abd-Elmoniem KZ, Prince JL. TRUHARP: SINGLE BREATH-HOLD MRI FOR HIGH RESOLUTION CARDIAC MOTION AND STRAIN QUANTIFICATION. PROCEEDINGS. IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2009; 2009:458-461. [PMID: 20559463 PMCID: PMC2886723 DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2009.5193083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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MRI techniques for tissue motion and strain quantifications have limited resolution because of interference from the conjugate echo or spectral peak in Fourier space. Methods have been proposed to remove this interference in order to improve resolution; however, these methods are clinically impractical due to long image acquisition time. In this paper, we propose TruHARP, an MRI motion and strain quantification methodology that involves a novel single breath-hold imaging protocol. In post-processing, TruHARP separates the spectral peaks in the acquired datasets, enabling high resolution motion and strain quantification. The impact of high resolution on circumferential and radial strain is studied using a realistic simulation and the improvement in strain maps is demonstrated in an in-vivo human study.
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- Harsh K Agarwal
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Korosoglou G, Futterer S, Humpert PM, Riedle N, Lossnitzer D, Hoerig B, Steen H, Giannitsis E, Osman NF, Katus HA. Strain-encoded cardiac MR during high-dose dobutamine stress testing: comparison to cine imaging and to myocardial tagging. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009; 29:1053-61. [PMID: 19388131 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate regional strain response during high-dose dobutamine stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (DS-CMR) using myocardial tagging and Strain-Encoded MR (SENC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Stress induced ischemia was assessed by wall motion analysis, by tagged CMR and by SENC in 65 patients with suspected or known CAD who underwent DS-CMR in a clinical 1.5 Tesla scanner. Coronary angiography deemed as the standard reference for the presence or absence of CAD (> or =50% diameter stenosis) in all patients. RESULTS SENC and conventional tagging detected abnormal strain response in six and five additional patients, respectively, who were missed by cine images and proved to have CAD by angiography (P < 0.05 for SENC versus cine, P = 0.06 for tagging versus cine and p = NS for SENC versus tagging). On a per-vessel level, wall motion analysis on cine images showed high specificity (95%) but moderate sensitivity (70%) for the detection of CAD. Tagging and SENC yielded significantly higher sensitivity of 81% and 89%, respectively (P < 0.05 for tagging and P < 0.01 for SENC versus wall motion analysis, and p = NS for SENC versus tagging), while specificity was equally high (96% and 94%, respectively, P = NS for all). CONCLUSION Both the direct color-coded visualization of strain on CMR images and the generation of additional visual markers within the myocardium with tagged CMR represent useful adjuncts for DS-CMR, which may provide incremental value for the detection of CAD in humans. J. Magn. Reson.
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Bilchick KC, Dimaano V, Wu KC, Helm RH, Weiss RG, Lima JA, Berger RD, Tomaselli GF, Bluemke DA, Halperin HR, Abraham T, Kass DA, Lardo AC. Cardiac magnetic resonance assessment of dyssynchrony and myocardial scar predicts function class improvement following cardiac resynchronization therapy. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2009; 1:561-8. [PMID: 19356481 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2008] [Revised: 04/21/2008] [Accepted: 04/28/2008] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We tested a circumferential mechanical dyssynchrony index (circumferential uniformity ratio estimate [CURE]; 0 to 1, 1 = synchrony) derived from magnetic resonance-myocardial tagging (MR-MT) for predicting clinical function class improvement following cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). BACKGROUND There remains a significant nonresponse rate to CRT. MR-MT provides high quality mechanical activation data throughout the heart, and delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (DE-CMR) offers precise characterization of myocardial scar. METHODS MR-MT was performed in 2 cohorts of heart failure patients with: 1) a CRT heart failure cohort (n = 20; left ventricular ejection fraction of 0.23 +/- 0.057) to evaluate the role of MR-MT and DE-CMR prior to CRT; and 2) a multimodality cohort (n = 27; ejection fraction of 0.20 +/- 0.066) to compare MR-MT and tissue Doppler imaging septal-lateral delay for assessment of mechanical dyssynchrony. MR-MT was also performed in 9 healthy control subjects. RESULTS MR-MT showed that control subjects had highly synchronous contraction (CURE 0.96 +/- 0.01), but tissue Doppler imaging indicated dyssynchrony in 44%. Using a cutoff of <0.75 for CURE based on receiver-operator characteristic analysis (area under the curve: 0.889), 56% of patients tested positive for mechanical dyssynchrony, and the MR-MT CURE predicted improved function class with 90% accuracy (positive and predictive values: 87%, 100%); adding DE-CMR (% total scar <15%) data improved accuracy further to 95% (positive and negative predictive values: 93%, 100%). The correlation between CURE and QRS duration was modest in all cardiomyopathy subjects (r = 0.58, p < 0.001). The multimodality cohort showed a 30% discordance rate between CURE and tissue Doppler imaging septal-lateral delay. CONCLUSIONS The MR-MT assessment of circumferential mechanical dyssynchrony predicts improvement in function class after CRT. The addition of scar imaging by DE-CMR further improves this predictive value.
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- Kenneth C Bilchick
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Tagged cine magnetic resonance imaging with a finite element model can predict the severity of retrosternal adhesions prior to redo cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009; 137:957-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.10.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2008] [Revised: 09/15/2008] [Accepted: 10/27/2008] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Alrefae T, Smirnova IV, Cook LT, Bilgen M. A model-based time-reversal of left ventricular motion improves cardiac motion analysis using tagged MRI data. Biomed Eng Online 2008; 7:15. [PMID: 18489766 PMCID: PMC2435113 DOI: 10.1186/1475-925x-7-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2007] [Accepted: 05/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Myocardial motion is an important observable for the assessment of heart condition. Accurate estimates of ventricular (LV) wall motion are required for quantifying myocardial deformation and assessing local tissue function and viability. Harmonic Phase (HARP) analysis was developed for measuring regional LV motion using tagged magnetic resonance imaging (tMRI) data. With current computer-aided postprocessing tools including HARP analysis, large motions experienced by myocardial tissue are, however, often intractable to measure. This paper addresses this issue and provides a solution to make such measurements possible. METHODS To improve the estimation performance of large cardiac motions while analyzing tMRI data sets, we propose a two-step solution. The first step involves constructing a model to describe average systolic motion of the LV wall within a subject group. The second step involves time-reversal of the model applied as a spatial coordinate transformation to digitally relax the contracted LV wall in the experimental data of a single subject to the beginning of systole. Cardiac tMRI scans were performed on four healthy rats and used for developing the forward LV model. Algorithms were implemented for preprocessing the tMRI data, optimizing the model parameters and performing the HARP analysis. Slices from the midventricular level were then analyzed for all systolic phases. RESULTS The time-reversal operation derived from the LV model accounted for the bulk portion of the myocardial motion, which was the average motion experienced within the overall subject population. In analyzing the individual tMRI data sets, removing this average with the time-reversal operation left small magnitude residual motion unique to the case. This remaining residual portion of the motion was estimated robustly using the HARP analysis. CONCLUSION Utilizing a combination of the forward LV model and its time reversal improves the performance of motion estimation in evaluating the cardiac function.
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Abd-Elmoniem KZ, Sampath S, Osman NF, Prince JL. Real-time monitoring of cardiac regional function using fastHARP MRI and region-of-interest reconstruction. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007; 54:1650-6. [PMID: 17867357 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2007.891946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cardiovascular stress test imaging assists in the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular disease. The procedure can be carried out in a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner using pharmacological agents that mimic the effects of natural exercise. In order to provide real time indication of ischemia, thereby assisting in diagnosis and helping to assure patient safety, it is desirable to have real time monitoring of the myocardial regional function. This paper presents an algorithm for the real time myocardium region-of-interest reconstruction and myocardial strain computation using data acquired from a real time pulse sequence that has been previously reported. The chirp Fourier transform is used for efficient computation, enabling a real-time continuous strain map at a rate of 25 frames/s. Coupled with a real time data path from the scanner to a laptop computer, this algorithm enables real time continuous monitoring of cardiac strain and is targeted for use in the early detection and quantification of ischemia during MR stress tests.
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- Khaled Z Abd-Elmoniem
- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Tumkosit M, Martin CG, Bayram E, Morgan TM, Lane KS, Rerkpattanapipat P, Hamilton CA, Link KM, Hundley WG. Left Ventricular Spherical Remodeling and Apical Myocardial Relaxation: Cardiovascular MR Imaging Measurement of Myocardial Segments. Radiology 2007; 244:411-8. [PMID: 17641364 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2442060780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate left ventricular (LV) shape and regional relaxation to determine if rapid, early relaxation of the LV is lost with spherical remodeling of the LV. MATERIALS AND METHODS This HIPAA-compliant study was approved by the institutional review board. All participants gave written informed consent. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) were performed in 18 individuals. Each participant was classified into one of three groups according to LV shape and TTE-derived mitral filling parameters. Pairwise comparisons of cardiovascular MR imaging measurements of LV relaxation were made between healthy individuals and those with spherically shaped LVs. RESULTS The LV regional relaxation rates were determined in a total of 108 basal, middle, and apical myocardial segments in 18 participants (13 women, five men; age range, 35-76 years). Participants with a spherically shaped LV (sphericity index, <1.5) and a mitral inflow velocity E wave/A wave ratio of less than 1.0 exhibited apical thinning velocities that were lower than those of healthy individuals (sphericity index, > or =1.5) (P < .01). The ratio of LV relaxation velocities in the apical versus middle LV segments correlated significantly with sphericity index (R(2) = 0.53; P = .0005). CONCLUSION LV apical relaxation velocities in participants with LV spherical remodeling (sphericity index, <1.5) were reduced compared with those of healthy individuals (sphericity index, > or =1.5).
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- Monravee Tumkosit
- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Bowman Gray Campus, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1045, USA
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- Theodore P Abraham
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Nasir K, Rosen BD, Kramer HJ, Edvardsen T, Bluemke DA, Liu K, Lima JAC. Regional left ventricular function in individuals with mild to moderate renal insufficiency: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am Heart J 2007; 153:545-51. [PMID: 17383292 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2006.12.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Asymptomatic individuals with moderate reduction in renal function are at increased risk for congestive heart failure. In this study we investigate the relationship between mild-moderate renal insufficiency and regional left ventricle function in a population free of cardiovascular disease. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study in 500 individuals > or = 45 years of age without known cardiovascular disease who participated in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Regional systolic and diastolic strain rate as well as peak systolic midwall circumferential strain were calculated from tagged magnetic resonance imaging studies in these participants. Regions were defined by coronary territories (left anterior descending, left circumflex, right coronary artery). Creatinine clearance (CrCl) was estimated by using the Cockcroft-Gault equation and categorized as > or = 90 mL/min (normal CrCl), 60 to 89 mL/min (mildly reduced CrCl), and < 60 mL/min (moderately reduced CrCl). RESULTS The mean participant age was 66 +/- 10 years (58% men). The mean CrCl was 80 +/- 25 mL/min. Multiple linear regression analyses indicated that circumferential systolic strain as well as systolic strain rate were significantly lower in participants with moderately reduced CrCl compared with those with normal CrCl in all coronary territories. Lower diastolic strain rates was observed in mild-moderate renal territories compared with those with normal CrCl. CONCLUSIONS Impaired regional systolic and diastolic function was observed with mild-moderate reduction of renal function without evidence of clinical heart disease. The results strengthen the usefulness of routine determination of renal function in potentially identify individuals with early myocardial dysfunction.
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- Khurram Nasir
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Kuijer JPA, Hofman MBM, Zwanenburg JJM, Marcus JT, van Rossum AC, Heethaar RM. DENSE and HARP: two views on the same technique of phase-based strain imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 2007; 24:1432-8. [PMID: 17096392 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To discuss differences between displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) and the harmonic phase (HARP) in imaging and reconstruction strategies. MATERIALS AND METHODS HARP and DENSE are presented in their historical context: while the HARP method was developed from the framework of myocardial tagging, DENSE arose from the framework of stimulated echo and displacement encoding using bipolar gradients. Both techniques have evolved since their introduction, thereby becoming more similar over time and losing their distinct features. Newly introduced improvements have successfully been applied in both methods. Differences between both methods are discussed point by point. RESULTS From this discussion it follows that almost all apparent differences are in fact nonexistent. CONCLUSION In the literature, both techniques are still regarded as distinctly different techniques, where a more general treatment of the technique is justified. Once it is realized that both frameworks are easily merged, the benefits are 1) less confusion about the (dis)advantages of either technique, and 2) understanding of phase-based strain imaging that is more general than HARP or DENSE alone.
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- Joost P A Kuijer
- Department of Physics and Medical Technology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Nasir K, Tsai M, Rosen BD, Fernandes V, Bluemke DA, Folsom AR, Lima JAC. Elevated homocysteine is associated with reduced regional left ventricular function: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Circulation 2007; 115:180-7. [PMID: 17200444 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.106.633750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND An elevated homocysteine (Hcy) level has been reported to be a risk factor for the development of congestive heart failure in individuals free of myocardial infarction. In this study, we aim to investigate the relationship between Hcy levels and regional left ventricular function in an asymptomatic population. METHOD AND RESULTS Regional peak systolic midwall circumferential strains were calculated from 1178 tagged magnetic resonance imaging studies in participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Left ventricular regions were defined by coronary territories (left anterior descending, left circumflex, right coronary artery). For the 1178 study participants (66+/-10 years of age, 58% males), the median (interquartile range) of Hcy was 9.1 (9.0 to 9.3). After adjustment for traditional risk factors, race, height, weight, left ventricular end-diastolic mass/volume, serum creatinine, and measures of atherosclerosis, reduced regional myocardial circumferential shortening across sex-specific quartiles of plasma Hcy in the left anterior descending (P=0.038) and left circumflex (P=0.009) regions persisted, which indicated an important association of reduced function with elevated Hcy. Multiple linear regression analyses confirmed that circumferential systolic dysfunction was associated with log transformed Hcy levels in the left anterior descending (P=0.004) and left circumflex (P=0.0002) regions. In the fully adjusted model, the odds ratio for left ventricular strains below the 10th percentile with 1 SD increases in log-transformed Hcy was 1.33 (95% confidence interval, 1.04 to 1.70; P=0.022) for the left anterior descending, 1.28 (95% confidence interval, 1.00 to 1.64; P=0.046) for the left circumflex, and 1.32 (95% confidence interval, 1.03 to 1.69; P=0.025) for the right coronary artery region. CONCLUSIONS In this asymptomatic population, an elevated Hcy level is associated with reduced regional left ventricular systolic function detected by tagged magnetic resonance imaging.
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- Khurram Nasir
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Cardiac MRI has long been recognized as an accurate and reliable means of evaluating cardiac anatomy and ventricular function. Considerable progress has been made in the field of cardiac MRI, and cardiac MRI can provide accurate evaluation of myocardial ischemia and infarction (MI). Late gadolinium (Gd)-enhanced MRI can clearly delineate subendocardial infarction, and the assessment of transmural extent of infarction on late enhanced MRI has been shown to be useful in predicting functional recovery of dysfunctional myocardium in patients after MI. Stress first-pass contrast-enhanced (CE) myocardial perfusion MRI can be used to detect subendocardial ischemia, and recent studies have demonstrated the high diagnostic accuracy of stress myocardial perfusion MRI for detecting significant coronary artery disease (CAD). Free-breathing, whole-heart coronary MR angiography (MRA) was recently introduced as a method that can provide visualization of all three major coronary arteries within a single three-dimensional (3D) acquisition. With further improvements in MRI techniques and the establishment of a standardized study protocol, cardiac MRI will play a pivotal role in managing patients with ischemic heart disease.
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- Hajime Sakuma
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mie University Hospital, Mie, Japan.
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Veress AI, Segars WP, Weiss JA, Tsui BMW, Gullberg GT. Normal and pathological NCAT image and phantom data based on physiologically realistic left ventricle finite-element models. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2006; 25:1604-16. [PMID: 17167995 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2006.884213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The four-dimensional (4-D) NURBS-based cardiac-torso (NCAT) phantom, which provides a realistic model of the normal human anatomy and cardiac and respiratory motions, is used in medical imaging research to evaluate and improve imaging devices and techniques, especially dynamic cardiac applications. One limitation of the phantom is that it lacks the ability to accurately simulate altered functions of the heart that result from cardiac pathologies such as coronary artery disease (CAD). The goal of this work was to enhance the 4-D NCAT phantom by incorporating a physiologically based, finite-element (FE) mechanical model of the left ventricle (LV) to simulate both normal and abnormal cardiac motions. The geometry of the FE mechanical model was based on gated high-resolution X-ray multislice computed tomography (MSCT) data of a healthy male subject. The myocardial wall was represented as a transversely isotropic hyperelastic material, with the fiber angle varying from -90 degrees at the epicardial surface, through 0 degrees at the midwall, to 90 degrees at the endocardial surface. A time-varying elastance model was used to simulate fiber contraction, and physiological intraventricular systolic pressure-time curves were applied to simulate the cardiac motion over the entire cardiac cycle. To demonstrate the ability of the FE mechanical model to accurately simulate the normal cardiac motion as well as the abnormal motions indicative of CAD, a normal case and two pathologic cases were simulated and analyzed. In the first pathologic model, a subendocardial anterior ischemic region was defined. A second model was created with a transmural ischemic region defined in the same location. The FE-based deformations were incorporated into the 4-D NCAT cardiac model through the control points that define the cardiac structures in the phantom which were set to move according to the predictions of the mechanical model. A simulation study was performed using the FE-NCAT combination to investigate how the differences in contractile function between the subendocardial and transmural infarcts manifest themselves in myocardial Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images. The normal FE model produced strain distributions that were consistent with those reported in the literature and a motion consistent with that defined in the normal 4-D NCAT beating heart model based on tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The addition of a subendocardial ischemic region changed the average transmural circumferential strain from a contractile value of -0.09 to a tensile value of 0.02. The addition of a transmural ischemic region changed average circumferential strain to a value of 0.13, which is consistent with data reported in the literature. Model results demonstrated differences in contractile function between subendocardial and transmural infarcts and how these differences in function are documented in simulated myocardial SPECT images produced using the 4-D NCAT phantom. Compared with the original NCAT beating heart model, the FE mechanical model produced a more accurate simulation for the cardiac motion abnormalities. Such a model, when incorporated into the 4-D NCAT phantom, has great potential for use in cardiac imaging research. With its enhanced physiologically based cardiac model, the 4-D NCAT phantom can be used to simulate realistic, predictive imaging data of a patient population with varying whole-body anatomy and with varying healthy and diseased states of the heart that will provide a known truth from which to evaluate and improve existing and emerging 4-D imaging techniques used in the diagnosis of cardiac disease.
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MESH Headings
- Algorithms
- Artifacts
- Computer Simulation
- Finite Element Analysis
- Heart Ventricles/diagnostic imaging
- Heart Ventricles/pathology
- Heart Ventricles/physiopathology
- Humans
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods
- Models, Anatomic
- Models, Cardiovascular
- Movement
- Phantoms, Imaging
- Radiographic Image Enhancement/methods
- Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/methods
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed/instrumentation
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/diagnostic imaging
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/pathology
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/physiopathology
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- Alexander I Veress
- Department of Bioengineering and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9202, USA.
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Coronary atherosclerosis is the most important primary etiologic factor predisposing to the development of heart failure. The mechanisms by which coronary atherosclerosis lead to heart failure likely involve the initial development of regional myocardial dysfunction, later progressing to global ventricular failure and symptomatic congestive disease. A variety of imaging strategies have been investigated for their value in identifying and characterizing markers of atherosclerosis in the effort to detect early cardiac disease. Non-invasive imaging techniques for assessing anatomic or functional manifestations of atherosclerosis include carotid ultrasonography, coronary computed tomography, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, brachial artery reactivity testing, and the ankle-brachial index. Many of these imaging methods are shown to have accuracy, reliability, and the potential to add value to an office-based cardiovascular risk assessment. Further development of such imaging methods could facilitate early intervention in the development of myocardial dysfunction while enhancing our understanding of the natural course of atherosclerotic disease.
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Detection of viable myocardium in patients with left ventricular dysfunction has become an increasingly important guide to prognosis and treatment. This article reviews the current status and future potential for the application of modalities to assess myocardial viability. Imaging and other techniques that are reviewed are myocardial perfusion imaging by single-photon-emission computed tomography, positron-emission tomography, echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance technology, computed tomography and catheter-based endocardial mapping.
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- Ashraf Hamdan
- Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
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Bayly PV, Black EE, Pedersen RC, Leister EP, Genin GM. In vivo imaging of rapid deformation and strain in an animal model of traumatic brain injury. J Biomech 2006; 39:1086-95. [PMID: 16549098 PMCID: PMC1479313 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2004] [Accepted: 02/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In traumatic brain injury (TBI) rapid deformation of brain tissue leads to axonal injury and cell death. In vivo quantification of such fast deformations is extremely difficult, but important for understanding the mechanisms of degeneration post-trauma and for development of numerical models of injury biomechanics. In this paper, strain fields in the brain of the perinatal rat were estimated from data obtained in vivo during rapid indentation. Tagged magnetic resonance (MR) images were obtained with high spatial (0.2 mm) and temporal (3.9 ms) resolution by gated image acquisition during and after impact. Impacts were repeated either 64 or 128 times to obtain images of horizontal and vertical tag lines in coronal and sagittal planes. Strain fields were estimated by harmonic phase (HARP) analysis of the tagged images. The original MR data was filtered and Fourier-transformed to obtain HARP images, following a method originally developed by Osman et al. (IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 19(3) (2000) 186). The displacements of material points were estimated from intersections of HARP contours and used to generate estimates of the deformation gradient and Lagrangian strain tensors. Maximum principal Lagrangian strains of >0.20 at strain rates >40/s were observed during indentations of 2 mm depth and 21 ms duration.
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- Philip V Bayly
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Box 1185, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
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Fernandes VRS, Polak JF, Edvardsen T, Carvalho B, Gomes A, Bluemke DA, Nasir K, O'Leary DH, Lima JAC. Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Incipient Regional Myocardial Dysfunction in Asymptomatic Individuals. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47:2420-8. [PMID: 16781369 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.12.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2005] [Revised: 08/24/2005] [Accepted: 12/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine whether increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is related to reduced regional myocardial function in participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). BACKGROUND Carotid artery IMT is an established index of subclinical atherosclerosis, and tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect incipient alterations of segmental function that precede overt myocardial failure. METHODS The MESA study is a prospective observational study including four ethnic groups free from clinical cardiovascular disease. Peak midwall systolic circumferential strain (ECC) and regional strain rates were calculated by harmonic phase from tagged MRI data of 500 participants. Systolic ECC and diastolic strain rate were regressed on IMT of the common carotid artery defined by ultrasound, with adjustments for body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, left ventricular hypertrophy, C-reactive protein, age, and gender. RESULTS The mean participant age was 66 +/- 10 years (mean +/- SD). Among the 58 participants, 4% were male and the interquartile (25th to 75th percentile) range for IMT was 0.25 mm. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that increased IMT was related to reduced systolic regional function (less shortening ECC) in all myocardial regions (p < 0.05), except in the inferior wall. The analyses also showed that greater IMT was associated with a lower diastolic strain rate (diastolic reduced function) in all regions (p < 0.01), except in the anterior wall. CONCLUSIONS Greater carotid IMT is associated with alterations of myocardial strain parameters reflecting reduced systolic and diastolic myocardial function. These observations indicate a relationship between subclinical atherosclerosis and incipient myocardial dysfunction in a population free of clinical heart disease.
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Strach K, Meyer C, Schild H, Sommer T. Cardiac stress MR imaging with dobutamine. Eur Radiol 2006; 16:2728-38. [PMID: 16715237 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0295-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2005] [Revised: 03/14/2006] [Accepted: 03/28/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Stress testing for detection of ischemia-induced wall-motion abnormalities has become a mainstay for noninvasive diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Recent technical developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including the adoption of balanced steady-state free precession (b-SSFP) sequences-preferentially in combination with parallel imaging techniques-have led to a significant reduction of imaging time and improved patient safety. The stress protocol includes application of high-dose dobutamine (up to 40 microg/kg/min) combined with fractionated atropine (up to a maximal dose of 1.0 mg). High-dose dobutamine stress MRI revealed good sensitivity (83-96%) and specificity (80-100%) for detection of significant CAD. Myocardial tagging methods have been shown to further increase sensitivity for CAD detection. Severe complications (sustained tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock) are rare but may be expected in 0.1-0.3% of patients. Dobutamine stress MRI has emerged as a reliable and safe clinical alternative for noninvasive assessment of CAD. New pulse sequences, such as real-time imaging, might obviate the need for breath holding and electrocardiogram (ECG) triggering in patients with severe dyspnoea and cardiac arrhythmias, which may further improve the clinical impact and acceptance of stress MRI in the future.
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- K Strach
- Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany
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Pan L, Stuber M, Kraitchman DL, Fritzges DL, Gilson WD, Osman NF. Real-time imaging of regional myocardial function using fast-SENC. Magn Reson Med 2006; 55:386-95. [PMID: 16402379 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A technique for fast imaging of regional myocardial function using a spiral acquisition in combination with strain-encoded (SENC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is presented in this paper. This technique, which is termed fast-SENC, enables scan durations as short as a single heartbeat. A reduced field of view (FOV) without foldover artifacts was achieved by localized SENC, which selectively excited the region around the heart. The two images required for SENC imaging (low- and high-tuning) were acquired in an interleaved fashion throughout the cardiac cycle to further shorten the scan time. Regional circumferential contraction and longitudinal shortening of both the left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV) were examined in long- and short-axis views, respectively. The in vivo results obtained from five human subjects and five infarcted dogs are presented. The results of the fast-SENC technique in a single heartbeat acquisition were comparable to those obtained by conventional SENC in a long acquisition time. Therefore, fast-SENC may prove useful for imaging during stress or arrhythmia.
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- Li Pan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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Graham JJ, Lederman RJ, Dick AJ. Magnetic resonance imaging and its role in myocardial regenerative therapy. Regen Med 2006; 1:347-55. [PMID: 17465788 DOI: 10.2217/17460751.1.3.347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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There has been extensive interest recently in cardiac stem cell therapy. Current research has been hampered by differences in cell type, methods of delivery and efficacy evaluation. In this article we review the use of magnetic resonance imaging in this growing area and argue that it is well suited to all areas of myocardial regeneration: from patient identification, through cell delivery and tracking of appropriately labeled cells, to evaluation of therapeutic effect. Potential future advances are discussed including magnetic resonance imaging-guided intervention suites and the use of higher field strength magnets for cell tracking.
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- John J Graham
- Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Alexander J Dick
- Cardiovascular Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1538, USA
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