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Quantitative evaluation of carotid atherosclerotic vulnerable plaques using in vivo T1 mapping cardiovascular magnetic resonaonce: validation by histology

It has been proved that multi-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) vessel wall imaging could be used to characterize carotid vulnerable plaque components according to the signal intensity on differ...

Authors: Huiyu Qiao, Dongye Li, Jingli Cao, Haikun Qi, Yongjun Han, Hualu Han, Huimin Xu, Tao Wang, Shuo Chen, Huijun Chen, Yajie Wang and Xihai Zhao

Association of right atrial structure with incident atrial fibrillation: a longitudinal cohort cardiovascular magnetic resonance study from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

While studies of the left atrium (LA) have demonstrated associations between volumes and emptying fraction with atrial fibrillation (AF), the contribution of right atrial (RA) abnormalities to incident AF rema...

Authors: Eric Xie, Ricky Yu, Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, Hooman Bakhshi, Susan R. Heckbert, Elsayed Z. Soliman, David A. Bluemke, Steven M. Kawut, Colin O. Wu, Saman Nazarian and João A. C. Lima

A comparison of cine CMR imaging at 0.55 T and 1.5 T

There is a renewed interest in lower field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), due to their favorable physical properties, reduced costs, and increased accessi...

Authors: W. Patricia Bandettini, Sujata M. Shanbhag, Christine Mancini, Delaney R. McGuirt, Peter Kellman, Hui Xue, Jennifer L. Henry, Margaret Lowery, Swee Lay Thein, Marcus Y. Chen and Adrienne E. Campbell-Washburn

Clinical experience regarding safety and diagnostic value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with a subcutaneous implanted cardioverter/defibrillator (S-ICD) at 1.5 T

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) studies in patients with implanted cardioverter/defibrillators (ICD) are increasingly required in daily clinical practice. However, the clinical experience regarding the...

Authors: Viktoria Holtstiege, Claudia Meier, Michael Bietenbeck, Grigorios Chatzantonis, Anca Florian, Julia Köbe, Florian Reinke, Lars Eckardt and Ali Yilmaz

Direct measurement of atrioventricular valve regurgitant jets using 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance is accurate and reliable for children with congenital heart disease: a retrospective cohort study

3D-time resolved flow (4DF) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) with retrospective analysis of atrioventricular valve regurgitation (AVVR) allows for internal validation by multiple direct and indirect met...

Authors: Kimberley Jacobs, Joseph Rigdon, Frandics Chan, Joseph Y. Cheng, Marcus T. Alley, Shreyas Vasanawala and Shiraz A. Maskatia

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance native T₂ and T₂^* quantitative values for cardiomyopathies and heart transplantations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The clinical application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T₂ and T₂^* mapping is currently limited as ranges for healthy and cardiac diseases are poorly defined. In this meta-analysis we aimed to determi...

Authors: G. J. H. Snel, M. van den Boomen, L. M. Hernandez, C. T. Nguyen, D. E. Sosnovik, B. K. Velthuis, R. H. J. A. Slart, R. J. H. Borra and N. H. J. Prakken

Clinical utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators presenting with electrical instability or worsening heart failure symptoms

Data on the usefulness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for clinical decision making in patients with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are scarce. The present study determined th...

Authors: Frank Lindemann, Sabrina Oebel, Ingo Paetsch, Arash Arya, Nikolaos Dagres, Sergio Richter, Borislav Dinov, Sebastian Hilbert, Susanne Loebe, Clara Stegmann, Michael Doering, Andreas Bollmann, Gerhard Hindricks and Cosima Jahnke

T₁ mapping performance and measurement repeatability: results from the multi-national T₁ mapping standardization phantom program (T1MES)

The T₁ Mapping and Extracellular volume (ECV) Standardization (T1MES) program explored T₁ mapping quality assurance using a purpose-developed phantom with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Conformité Europée...

Authors: Gabriella Captur, Abhiyan Bhandari, Rüdiger Brühl, Bernd Ittermann, Kathryn E. Keenan, Ye Yang, Richard J. Eames, Giulia Benedetti, Camilla Torlasco, Lewis Ricketts, Redha Boubertakh, Nasri Fatih, John P. Greenwood, Leonie E. M. Paulis, Chris B. Lawton, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci…

Prevalence and clinical significance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance adenosine stress-induced myocardial perfusion defect in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is thought to be associated with microvascular dysfunction. Adenosine stress-perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is a sensitive method for assessing micr...

Authors: Eun Kyoung Kim, Sang-Chol Lee, Sung-A Chang, Shin-Yi Jang, Sung Mok Kim, Sung-Ji Park, Jin-Oh Choi, Seung Woo Park, Eun-Seok Jeon and Yeon Hyeon Choe

4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance for monitoring of aortic valve repair in bicuspid aortic valve disease

Aortic valve repair has become a treatment option for adults with symptomatic bicuspid (BAV) or unicuspid (UAV) aortic valve insufficiency. Our aim was to demonstrate the feasibility of 4D flow cardiovascular ...

Authors: Alexander Lenz, Johannes Petersen, Christoph Riedel, Julius M. Weinrich, Hendrik Kooijman, Bjoern P. Schoennagel, Gerhard Adam, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Hermann Reichenspurner, Evaldas Girdauskas and Peter Bannas

Prognostic value of mean velocity at the pulmonary artery estimated by cardiovascular magnetic resonance as a prognostic predictor in a cohort of patients with new-onset heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) conveys a worse prognosis in heart failure (HF), in particular when right ventricular (RV) dysfunction ensues. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) non-invasively estimates pulmo...

Authors: Blanca Trejo-Velasco, Óscar Fabregat-Andrés, Pilar M. García-González, Diana C. Perdomo-Londoño, Andrés M. Cubillos-Arango, Mónica I. Ferrando-Beltrán, Joaquina Belchi-Navarro, José L. Pérez-Boscá, Rafael Payá-Serrano and Francisco Ridocci-Soriano

Correction to: Three-dimensional assessment of coronary high-intensity plaques with T1-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to predict periprocedural myocardial injury after elective percutaneous coronary intervention

In the original publication of this article [1] the wording of ‘3Di-PMR’ was different between the text and figures.

Authors: Hayato Hosoda, Yasuhide Asaumi, Teruo Noguchi, Yoshiaki Morita, Yu Kataoka, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakao, Masashi Fujino, Toshiyuki Nagai, Michikazu Nakai, Kunihiro Nishimura, Atsushi Kono, Yoshiaki Komori, Tomoya Hoshi, Akira Sato, Tomohiro Kawasaki…

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) guidance for the practice of cardiovascular magnetic resonance during the COVID-19 pandemic

The aim of this document is to provide general guidance and specific recommendations on the practice of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are two major consider...

Authors: Yuchi Han, Tiffany Chen, Jennifer Bryant, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Christopher Dyke, Michael D. Elliott, Victor A. Ferrari, Matthias G. Friedrich, Chris Lawton, Warren J. Manning, Karen Ordovas, Sven Plein, Andrew J. Powell, Subha V. Raman and James Carr

Myocardial structural and functional changes in patients with liver cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation: a comprehensive cardiovascular magnetic resonance and echocardiographic study

Cardiac dysfunction is increasingly recognized in patients with liver cirrhosis. Nevertheless, the presence or absence of structural alterations such as diffuse myocardial fibrosis remains unclear. We aimed to...

Authors: Hyue Mee Kim, Hyung-Kwan Kim, Jeong-Hoon Lee, Yun Bin Lee, Eun-Ah Park, Jun-Bean Park, Seung-Pyo Lee, Yoon Jun Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Jung-Hwan Yoon and Dae-Won Sohn

3D whole-heart isotropic sub-millimeter resolution coronary magnetic resonance angiography with non-rigid motion-compensated PROST

To enable free-breathing whole-heart sub-millimeter resolution coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) in a clinically feasible scan time by combining low-rank patch-based undersampled reconstruction (3...

Authors: Aurélien Bustin, Imran Rashid, Gastao Cruz, Reza Hajhosseiny, Teresa Correia, Radhouene Neji, Ronak Rajani, Tevfik F. Ismail, René M. Botnar and Claudia Prieto

Myocardial tissue and metabolism characterization in men with alcohol consumption by cardiovascular magnetic resonance and 11C-acetate PET/CT

Chronic alcohol consumption initially leads to asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction, but can result in myocardial impairment and heart failure if ongoing. This study sought to characterize myocardial tiss...

Authors: Shuai Liu, Xue Lin, Ximin Shi, Ligang Fang, Li Huo, Fei Shang, Juhani Knuuti, Chunlei Han, Xiaomeng Wu, Rui Guo, Haiyan Ding, Runhua Zhang, Huimin Duan, Jie Ding, Haiqun Xing and Xihai Zhao

Multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance characteristics and dynamic changes in myocardial and skeletal muscles in idiopathic inflammatory cardiomyopathy

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) manifest as systematic muscle involvement. Multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) could be a useful technique to detect systemic involvement and disease ...

Authors: Yuanwei Xu, Jianhong Sun, Ke Wan, Liuyu Yu, Jie Wang, Weihao Li, Fuyuao Yang, Jiayu Sun, Wei Cheng, David Mui, Qing Zhang, Qibing Xie and Yucheng Chen

Regional variations in ex-vivo diffusion tensor anisotropy are associated with cardiomyocyte remodeling in rats after left ventricular pressure overload

Pressure overload left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is characterized by increased cardiomyocyte width and ventricle wall thickness, however the regional variation of this remodeling is unclear. Cardiovascular ...

Authors: Eric D. Carruth, Irvin Teh, Jurgen E. Schneider, Andrew D. McCulloch, Jeffrey H. Omens and Lawrence R. Frank

Invasive cardiovascular magnetic resonance (iCMR) for diagnostic right and left heart catheterization using an MR-conditional guidewire and passive visualization in congenital heart disease

Today’s standard of care, in the congenital heart disease (CHD) population, involves performing cardiac catheterization under x-ray fluoroscopy and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging separately. The uniq...

Authors: Surendranath R. Veeram Reddy, Yousef Arar, Riad Abou Zahr, Vasu Gooty, Jennifer Hernandez, Amanda Potersnak, Phillip Douglas, Zachary Blair, Joshua S. Greer, Sébastien Roujol, Mari Nieves Velasco Forte, Gerald Greil, Alan W. Nugent and Tarique Hussain

Standardized image interpretation and post-processing in cardiovascular magnetic resonance - 2020 update

With mounting data on its accuracy and prognostic value, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is becoming an increasingly important diagnostic tool with growing utility in clinical routine. Given its versat...

Authors: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, David A. Bluemke, Jens Bremerich, Scott D. Flamm, Mark A. Fogel, Matthias G. Friedrich, Raymond J. Kim, Florian von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff, Christopher M. Kramer, Dudley J. Pennell, Sven Plein and Eike Nagel

Assessment of carotid atherosclerotic disease using three-dimensional cardiovascular magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging: comparison with digital subtraction angiography

A three-dimensional (3D) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) vessel wall imaging (VWI) technique based on 3D T1 weighted (T1w) Sampling Perfection with Application-optimized Contrast using different flip a...

Authors: Zhenjia Wang, Mi Lu, Wen Liu, Tiejin Zheng, Debiao Li, Wei Yu and Zhaoyang Fan

Standardized cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) protocols: 2020 update

This document is an update to the 2013 publication of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Board of Trustees Task Force on Standardized Protocols. Concurrent with this publication, 3 additi...

Authors: Christopher M. Kramer, Jörg Barkhausen, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Scott D. Flamm, Raymond J. Kim and Eike Nagel

Correction to: Imaging of the pulmonary vasculature in congenital heart disease without gadolinium contrast: Intraindividual comparison of a novel Compressed SENSE accelerated 3D modified REACT with 4D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography

The original publication of this article [1], contained graphical errors in Figs. 1 and 2. This does not impact the display of the mean differences of the Bland-Altman plots. The updated figures (Fig. 1 and Fi...

Authors: Lenhard Pennig, Anton Wagner, Kilian Weiss, Simon Lennartz, Jan-Peter Grunz, David Maintz, Kai Roman Laukamp, Tilman Hickethier, Claas Philip Naehle, Alexander Christian Bunck and Jonas Doerner

Feasibility of contrast-enhanced coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography using compressed sensing

Coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) is a promising technique for assessing the coronary arteries. However, a disadvantage of CMRA is the comparatively long acquisition time. Compressed sensing (CS) ...

Authors: Kuniaki Hirai, Teruhito Kido, Tomoyuki Kido, Ryo Ogawa, Yuki Tanabe, Masashi Nakamura, Naoto Kawaguchi, Akira Kurata, Kouki Watanabe, Osamu Yamaguchi, Michaela Schmidt, Christoph Forman and Teruhito Mochizuki

Imaging, biomarker and invasive assessment of diffuse left ventricular myocardial fibrosis in atrial fibrillation

Using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), it is possible to detect diffuse fibrosis of the left ventricle (LV) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), which may be independently associated with...

Authors: Gordon A. Begg, Peter P. Swoboda, Rashed Karim, Tobias Oesterlein, Kawal Rhode, Arun V. Holden, John P. Greenwood, Eduard Shantsila, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Sven Plein and Muzahir H. Tayebjee

Sub-segmental quantification of single (stress)-pass perfusion CMR improves the diagnostic accuracy for detection of obstructive coronary artery disease

Myocardial perfusion with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is an established diagnostic test for evaluation of myocardial ischaemia. For quantification purposes, the 16 segment American Heart As...

Authors: Melanie T. P. Le, Niloufar Zarinabad, Tommaso D’Angelo, Ibnul Mia, Robert Heinke, Thomas J. Vogl, Andreas Zeiher, Eike Nagel and Valentina O. Puntmann

Respiratory motion-compensated high-resolution 3D whole-heart T1ρ mapping

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1ρ mapping can be used to detect ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy without the need of exogenous contrast agents. Current 2D myocardial T1ρ mapping requires multi...

Authors: Haikun Qi, Aurelien Bustin, Thomas Kuestner, Reza Hajhosseiny, Gastao Cruz, Karl Kunze, Radhouene Neji, René M. Botnar and Claudia Prieto

Normal right and left ventricular volumes prospectively obtained from cardiovascular magnetic resonance in awake, healthy, 0- 12 year old children

Pediatric z scores are necessary to describe size and structure of the heart in growing children, however, development of an accurate z score calculator requires robust normal datasets, which are difficult to ...

Authors: Laura J. Olivieri, Jiji Jiang, Karin Hamann, Yue-Hin Loke, Adrienne Campbell-Washburn, Hui Xue, Robert McCarter and Russell Cross

The application of exercise stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with suspected dilated cardiomyopathy

The imaging features of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) overlap with physiological exercise-induced cardiac remodeling in active and otherwise healthy individuals. Distinguishing the two conditions is challenging...

Authors: Thu-Thao Le, Jennifer Ann Bryant, Briana Wei Yin Ang, Chee Jian Pua, Boyang Su, Pei Yi Ho, Shiqi Lim, Weiting Huang, Phong Teck Lee, Hak Chiaw Tang, Chee Tang Chin, Boon Yew Tan, Stuart Alexander Cook and Calvin Woon-Loong Chin

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance based diagnosis of left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy: impact of cine bSSFP strain analysis

Investigation of the myocardial strain characteristics of the left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) phenotype with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking.

Authors: John G. Dreisbach, Shobhit Mathur, Christian P. Houbois, Erwin Oechslin, Heather Ross, Kate Hanneman and Bernd J. Wintersperger

Imaging of the pulmonary vasculature in congenital heart disease without gadolinium contrast: Intraindividual comparison of a novel Compressed SENSE accelerated 3D modified REACT with 4D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography

Patients with Congenital heart disease (CHD) require repetitive imaging of the pulmonary vasculature throughout their life. In this study, we compared a novel Compressed SENSE accelerated (factor 9) electrocar...

Authors: Lenhard Pennig, Anton Wagner, Kilian Weiss, Simon Lennartz, Jan-Peter Grunz, David Maintz, Kai Roman Laukamp, Tilman Hickethier, Claas Philip Naehle, Alexander Christian Bunck and Jonas Doerner

Highly accelerated 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance using a pseudo-spiral Cartesian acquisition and compressed sensing reconstruction for carotid flow and wall shear stress

4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) enables visualization of complex blood flow and quantification of biomarkers for vessel wall disease, such as wall shear stress (WSS). Because of the inherently ...

Authors: Eva S. Peper, Lukas M. Gottwald, Qinwei Zhang, Bram F. Coolen, Pim van Ooij, Aart J. Nederveen and Gustav J. Strijkers

Z-score mapping for standardized analysis and reporting of cardiovascular magnetic resonance modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) T1 data: Normal behavior and validation in patients with amyloidosis

T1 mapping using modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) provides quantitative information on myocardial tissue composition. T1 results differ between sites due to variations in hardware and software e...

Authors: Riccardo Kranzusch, Fabian aus dem Siepen, Stephanie Wiesemann, Leonora Zange, Sarah Jeuthe, Tiago Ferreira da Silva, Titus Kuehne, Burkert Pieske, Christoph Tillmanns, Matthias G. Friedrich, Jeanette Schulz-Menger and Daniel R. Messroghli

Three-dimensional assessment of coronary high-intensity plaques with T1-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to predict periprocedural myocardial injury after elective percutaneous coronary intervention

Periprocedural myocardial injury (pMI) is a common complication of elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) that reduces some of the beneficial effects of coronary revascularization and impacts the ri...

Authors: Hayato Hosoda, Yasuhide Asaumi, Teruo Noguchi, Yoshiaki Morita, Yu Kataoka, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakao, Masashi Fujino, Toshiyuki Nagai, Michikazu Nakai, Kunihiro Nishimura, Atsushi Kono, Yoshiaki Komori, Tomoya Hoshi, Akira Sato, Tomohiro Kawasaki…

Co-existing cerebrovascular atherosclerosis predicts subsequent vascular event: a multi-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging study

It is still unknown that whether co-existing intracranial stenosis and extracranial carotid vulnerable plaques have higher predictive value for subsequent vascular events. This study aimed to determine the rel...

Authors: Jin Li, Dongye Li, Dandan Yang, Ran Huo, Xiaoyi Chen, Yilan Xu, Wei Dai, Dan Zhou and Xihai Zhao

Hyper-acute cardiovascular magnetic resonance T1 mapping predicts infarct characteristics in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction

Myocardial recovery after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction is variable and the extent and severity of injury are difficult to predict. We sought to investigate the role...

Authors: Mohammad Alkhalil, Alessandra Borlotti, Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Mathias Wolfrum, Sam Dawkins, Gregor Fahrni, Lisa Gaughran, Jeremy P. Langrish, Andrew Lucking, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Rajesh K. Kharbanda, Adrian P. Banning, Erica Dall’Armellina, Keith M. Channon and Robin P. Choudhury

Left ventricular function recovery in peripartum cardiomyopathy: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study by myocardial T1 and T2 mapping

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is rare and potentially life-threatening; its etiology remains unclear. Imaging characteristics on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and their prognostic significance hav...

Authors: Yao-Dan Liang, Yuan-Wei Xu, Wei-Hao Li, Ke Wan, Jia-Yu Sun, Jia-Yi Lin, Qing Zhang, Xiao-Yue Zhou and Yu-Cheng Chen

Quantification of left atrial function in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking imaging: a feasibility and reproducibility study

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and is associated with adverse outcomes in HCM patients. Although the left atrial (LA) diameter has consistently been...

Authors: Yingxia Yang, Gang Yin, Yong Jiang, Lei Song, Shihua Zhao and Minjie Lu

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: 2017/2018 in review

There were 89 articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) in 2017, including 76 original research papers, 4 reviews, 5 technical notes, 1 guideline, and 3 corrections. The volume...

Authors: Warren J. Manning

Clinical practice of cardiovascular magnetic resonance: position statement of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

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Ferumoxytol-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance detection of early stage acute myocarditis

The diagnostic utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is limited during the early stages of myocarditis. This study examined whether ferumoxytol-enhanced CMR (FE-CMR) could detect an earlier stage ...

Authors: Yuko Tada, Atsushi Tachibana, Shahriar Heidary, Phillip C. Yang, Michael V. McConnell and Rajesh Dash

Long term CMR follow up of patients with right ventricular abnormality and clinically suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC)

The Task Force Criteria (TFC) for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) was updated in 2010 to improve specificity. There was concern however that the revised cardiovascular magnetic resonance...

Authors: Giuseppe Femia, Christopher Semsarian, Mark McGuire, Raymond W. Sy and Rajesh Puranik

Comparison of different methods for the estimation of aortic pulse wave velocity from 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV) is associated with increased mortality in aging and disease. Several studies have shown the accuracy of applanation tonometry carotid-femoral PWV (Cf-PWV) and the relevance o...

Authors: Sophia Houriez--Gombaud-Saintonge, Elie Mousseaux, Ioannis Bargiotas, Alain De Cesare, Thomas Dietenbeck, Kevin Bouaou, Alban Redheuil, Gilles Soulat, Alain Giron, Umit Gencer, Damian Craiem, Emmanuel Messas, Emilie Bollache, Yasmina Chenoune and Nadjia Kachenoura

Quantification of blood flow in the fetus with cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging using Doppler ultrasound gating: validation against metric optimized gating

Fetal cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is used clinically and for research, but has been previously limited due to lack of direct gating methods. A CMR-compatible Doppler ultrasound (DUS) gating...

Authors: Daniel Salehi, Liqun Sun, Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg, Sebastian Bidhult, Fabian Kording, Christian Ruprecht, Christopher K. Macgowan, Michael Seed, Anthony H. Aletras, Håkan Arheden and Erik Hedström

The relative contributions of myocardial perfusion, blood volume and extracellular volume to native T1 and native T2 at rest and during adenosine stress in normal physiology

Both ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease can cause disturbances in the myocardial blood volume (MBV), myocardial perfusion and the myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV). Recent studies suggest tha...

Authors: Jannike Nickander, Raquel Themudo, Simon Thalén, Andreas Sigfridsson, Hui Xue, Peter Kellman and Martin Ugander

T₂STIR preparation for single-shot cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial edema imaging

Myocardial edema in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is commonly imaged using dark-blood short tau inversion recovery turbo spin echo (STIR-TSE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). The technique is sensi...

Authors: Yanjie Zhu, Dan Yang, Lixian Zou, Yucheng Chen, Xin Liu and Yiu-Cho Chung

Free breathing three-dimensional cardiac quantitative susceptibility mapping for differential cardiac chamber blood oxygenation – initial validation in patients with cardiovascular disease inclusive of direct comparison to invasive catheterization

Differential blood oxygenation between left (LV) and right ventricles (RV; ΔSaO₂) is a key index of cardiac performance; LV dysfunction yields increased RV blood pool deoxygenation. Deoxyhemoglobin increases bloo...

Authors: Yan Wen, Jonathan W. Weinsaft, Thanh D. Nguyen, Zhe Liu, Evelyn M. Horn, Harsimran Singh, Jonathan Kochav, Sarah Eskreis-Winkler, Kofi Deh, Jiwon Kim, Martin R. Prince, Yi Wang and Pascal Spincemaille

The dynamics of extracellular gadolinium-based contrast agent excretion into pleural and pericardial effusions quantified by T1 mapping cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Excretion of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) extracellular gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) into pleural and pericardial effusions, sometimes referred to as vicarious excretion, has been describ...

Authors: Simon Thalén, Maren Maanja, Andreas Sigfridsson, Eva Maret, Peder Sörensson and Martin Ugander

Supine, prone, right and left gravitational effects on human pulmonary circulation

Body position can be optimized for pulmonary ventilation/perfusion matching during surgery and intensive care. However, positional effects upon distribution of pulmonary blood flow and vascular distensibility ...

Authors: Björn Wieslander, Joao Génio Ramos, Malin Ax, Johan Petersson and Martin Ugander

Repaired coarctation of the aorta, persistent arterial hypertension and the selfish brain

It has been estimated that 20–30% of repaired aortic coarctation (CoA) patients develop hypertension, with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Vertebral artery hypoplasia (VAH) with an incomple...

Authors: Jonathan C. L. Rodrigues, Matthew F. R. Jaring, Melissa C. Werndle, Konstantina Mitrousi, Stephen M. Lyen, Angus K. Nightingale, Mark C. K. Hamilton, Stephanie L. Curtis, Nathan E. Manghat, Julian F. R. Paton and Emma C. Hart