- Poster presentation
- Open Access
- Published:
Myocardial T1 mapping at 3 T in healthy adults: reference values and influencing factors
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance volume 18, Article number: P128 (2016)
Background
This study aimed at analyzing the feasibility of T1 mapping at 3 T cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), providing reference values and evaluating the influencing factors.
Methods
Forty six healthy volunteers (26 females; mean age 49 ± 14 years) underwent left-ventricular T1 mapping in 3 short-axis slices at 3 T. For T1 mapping, modified Look-Locker inversion recovery sequence was used before and after injection of gadolinium contrast. T1 relaxation times were quantified for each slice and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) was calculated. The association between the T1 mapping parameters and potential influencing factors were determined using a Pearson correlation.
Results
Mean overall left ventricle pre-contrast T1 times were 1268.0 ± 38.2 ms, post-contrast T1 times were 564.8 ± 54.8 ms, ECV were 27.3 ± 2.6%. There were no significant differences of myocardium T1 times between male and females (all p > 0.05) but ECV was slightly higher in women than men (p < 0.05). No correlation between age and T1 mapping parameters were found (all p > 0.05).
Conclusions
Myocardial T1 reference values for the specific CMR setting are provided. T1 mapping parameters show no gender and age differences in normal individuals.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
About this article
Cite this article
Zhao, L., Ma, X., Fan, Z. et al. Myocardial T1 mapping at 3 T in healthy adults: reference values and influencing factors. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 18 (Suppl 1), P128 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-18-S1-P128
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-18-S1-P128
Keywords
- Influence Factor
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- Extracellular Volume
- Gadolinium Contrast
- Recovery Sequence