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Single breath-hold slice-following CSPAMM myocardial tagging.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  10555178     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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.
Authors:
M Stuber; M A Spiegel; S E Fischer; M B Scheidegger; P G Danias; E M Pedersen; P Boesiger
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Magma (New York, N.Y.)     Volume:  9     ISSN:  0968-5243     ISO Abbreviation:  MAGMA     Publication Date:  1999 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1999-12-10     Completed Date:  1999-12-10     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9310752     Medline TA:  MAGMA     Country:  NETHERLANDS    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  85-91     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Diastole
Echo-Planar Imaging / methods
Electrocardiography
Heart / anatomy & histology*,  physiology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Respiration
Systole

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