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Gradient Spin Echo (GraSE) imaging for fast myocardial T2 mapping

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Title
Gradient Spin Echo (GraSE) imaging for fast myocardial T2 mapping
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Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12968-015-0127-z
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Alois M Sprinkart, Julian A Luetkens, Frank Träber, Jonas Doerner, Jürgen Gieseke, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Georg Schmitz, Daniel Thomas, Rami Homsi, Wolfgang Block, Hans Schild, Claas P Naehle

Abstract

Quantitative Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) techniques have gained high interest in CMR research. Myocardial T2 mapping is thought to be helpful in diagnosis of acute myocardial conditions associated with myocardial edema. In this study we aimed to establish a technique for myocardial T2 mapping based on gradient-spin-echo (GraSE) imaging. The local ethics committee approved this prospective study. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects prior to CMR. A modified GraSE sequence allowing for myocardial T2 mapping in a single breath-hold per slice using ECG-triggered acquisition of a black blood multi-echo series was developed at 1.5 Tesla. Myocardial T2 relaxation time (T2-RT) was determined by maximum likelihood estimation from magnitude phased-array multi-echo data. Four GraSE sequence variants with varying number of acquired echoes and resolution were evaluated in-vitro and in 20 healthy volunteers. Inter-study reproducibility was assessed in a subset of five volunteers. The sequence with the best overall performance was further evaluated by assessment of intra- and inter-observer agreement in all volunteers, and then implemented into the clinical CMR protocol of five patients with acute myocardial injury (myocarditis, takotsubo cardiomyopathy and myocardial infarction). In-vitro studies revealed the need for well defined sequence settings to obtain accurate T2-RT measurements with GraSE. An optimized 6-echo GraSE sequence yielded an excellent agreement with the gold standard Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill sequence. Global myocardial T2 relaxation times in healthy volunteers was 52.2 ± 2.0 ms (mean ± standard deviation). Mean difference between repeated examinations (n = 5) was -0.02 ms with 95% limits of agreement (LoA) of [-4.7; 4.7] ms. Intra-reader and inter-reader agreement was excellent with mean differences of -0.1 ms, 95% LoA = [-1.3; 1.2] ms and 0.1 ms, 95% LoA = [-1.5; 1.6] ms, respectively (n = 20). In patients with acute myocardial injury global myocardial T2-RTs were prolonged (mean: 61.3 ± 6.7 ms). Using an optimized GraSE sequence CMR allows for robust, reliable, fast myocardial T2 mapping and quantitative tissue characterization. Clinically, the GraSE-based T2-mapping has the potential to complement qualitative CMR in patients with acute myocardial injuries.

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Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 99 99%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Master 10 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 9%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 19 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 35%
Engineering 16 16%
Physics and Astronomy 7 7%
Unspecified 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 24 24%
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