Single breath-hold slice-following CSPAMM myocardial tagging.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_649CEE121F96
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Single breath-hold slice-following CSPAMM myocardial tagging.
Journal
Magma
Author(s)
Stuber M., Spiegel M.A., Fischer S.E., Scheidegger M.B., Danias P.G., Pedersen E.M., Boesiger P.
ISSN
0968-5243[print], 0968-5243[linking]
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1999
Volume
9
Number
1-2
Pages
85-91
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Myocardial tagging has shown to be a useful magnetic resonance modality for the assessment and quantification of local myocardial function. Many myocardial tagging techniques suffer from a rapid fading of the tags, restricting their application mainly to systolic phases of the cardiac cycle. However, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been increasingly appreciated as a major cause of heart failure. Subtraction based slice-following CSPAMM myocardial tagging has shown to overcome limitations such as fading of the tags. Remaining impediments to this technique, however, are extensive scanning times (approximately 10 min), the requirement of repeated breath-holds using a coached breathing pattern, and the enhanced sensitivity to artifacts related to poor patient compliance or inconsistent depths of end-expiratory breath-holds. We therefore propose a combination of slice-following CSPAMM myocardial tagging with a segmented EPI imaging sequence. Together with an optimized RF excitation scheme, this enables to acquire as many as 20 systolic and diastolic grid-tagged images per cardiac cycle with a high tagging contrast during a short period of sustained respiration.
Keywords
Adult, Diastole, Echo-Planar Imaging/methods, Electrocardiography, Heart/anatomy & histology, Heart/physiology, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods, Male, Respiration, Systole
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