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Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2016 18(Suppl 1):P351
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Development and validation of a questionnaire evaluating patient anxiety during Magnetic Resonance Imaging: the Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Anxiety Questionnaire (MRI-AQ)
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Presence of late gadolinium enhancement in "healthy subjects": correlation with chronic exposure to moderately high altitudes
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Role of 12 lead ECG Q-waves as a marker of myocardial infarction in the era of cardiac magnetic resonance
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The use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosing and characterizing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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The cardiac toxicity CMR Study in patients with lung cancer treated with chemo-radiotherapy: The CART study- a semi quantitative analysis of the myocardial perfusion index
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Multicontrast 3D automated segmentation of cardiovascular images
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Myocardial ASL-CMR perfusion imaging with improved sensitivity using GRAPPA
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Left ventricular kinetic energy as a marker of mechanical dyssynchrony in failing hearts with LBBB: a 4D flow CMR study
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Accelerated free-breathing diffusion tensor MRI of the entire human heart using spatiotemporal registration and retrospective image selection
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Incremental benefit in correlation with histology of native T1 mapping, partition coefficient and extracellular volume fraction in patients with aortic stenosis
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Free-breathing myocardial T2* mapping using GRE-EPI and MOCO for myocardial and hepatic iron overload assessment: a multi-centre study
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Nonlinear profile order for 3D hybrid radial acquisition applied to self-gated free-breathing cardiac cine MRI
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Myocardial T1 mapping with spectrally-selective inversion pulse to reduce the influence of fat
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The incretin axis offers a novel therapeutic target to preserve myocardial energy metabolism in cardiorenal syndrome
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial oedema following acute myocardial infarction: Is whole heart coverage necessary?
AAR measurement is useful when assessing the efficacy of reperfusion therapy and novel cardioprotective agents after myocardial infarction. Multi-slice (Typically 10-12) T2-STIR has been used widely for its me...
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Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology
Despite common enthusiasm for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), its application in Europe is quite diverse. Restrictions are attributed to a number of factors, like limited access, deficits in training,...
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Increased myocardial native T1 and extracellular volume in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cardiomyopathy is a progressive disease for which there is no cure. Disease-specific therapies are needed that can be initiated before irreversible myocardial damage ensues. I...
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Microvascular ischemia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: new insights from high-resolution combined quantification of perfusion and late gadolinium enhancement
Microvascular ischemia is one of the hallmarks of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and has been associated with poor outcome. However, myocardial fibrosis, seen on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) as l...
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Cost-minimization analysis of three decision strategies for cardiac revascularization: results of the “suspected CAD” cohort of the european cardiovascular magnetic resonance registry
Coronary artery disease (CAD) continues to be one of the top public health burden. Perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is generally accepted to detect CAD, while data on its cost effectiveness ar...
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Relationship between cardiac diffusion tensor imaging parameters and anthropometrics in healthy volunteers
In vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) is uniquely capable of interrogating laminar myocardial dynamics non-invasively. A comprehensive dataset of quantative parameters and comparison with subject ant...
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Mechanical effects of left ventricular midwall fibrosis in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
Left ventricular (LV) mid-wall fibrosis (MWF), which occurs in about a quarter of patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM), is associated with high risk of pump failure. The mid LV wall is the site of ...
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Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension predicts functional capacity and clinical worsening: a tissue phase mapping study
The function of the right and left ventricles is intimately related through a shared septum and pericardium. Therefore, right ventricular (RV) disease in pulmonary hypertension (PH) can result in abnormal left...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:116 -
Mapping tissue inhomogeneity in acute myocarditis: a novel analytical approach to quantitative myocardial edema imaging by T2-mapping
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic value of T2-mapping in acute myocarditis (ACM) and to define cut-off values for edema detection.
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Free-breathing myocardial T2* mapping using GRE-EPI and automatic Non-rigid motion correction
Measurement of myocardial T2* is becoming widely used in the assessment of patients at risk for cardiac iron overload. The conventional breath-hold, ECG-triggered, segmented, multi-echo gradient echo (MGRE) se...
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Positive contrast spiral imaging for visualization of commercial nitinol guidewires with reduced heating
CMR-guidance has the potential to improve tissue visualization during cardiovascular catheterization procedures and to reduce ionizing radiation exposure, but a lack of commercially available CMR guidewires li...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:114 -
Feasibility and safety of adenosine cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with MR conditional pacemaker systems at 1.5 Tesla
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) with adenosine stress is a valuable diagnostic tool in coronary artery disease (CAD). However, despite the development of MR conditional pacemakers CMR is not yet establ...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:112 -
Detection of elevated right ventricular extracellular volume in pulmonary hypertension using Accelerated and Navigator-Gated Look-Locker Imaging for Cardiac T1 Estimation (ANGIE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Assessment of diffuse right ventricular (RV) fibrosis is of particular interest in pulmonary hypertension (PH) and heart failure (HF). Current cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 mapping techniques such...
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Left ventricular fluid kinetic energy time curves in heart failure from cardiovascular magnetic resonance 4D flow data
Measurement of intracardiac kinetic energy (KE) provides new insights into cardiac hemodynamics and may improve assessment and understanding of heart failure. We therefore aimed to investigate left ventricular...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:111 -
Non-invasive measurement using cardiovascular magnetic resonance of changes in pulmonary artery stiffness with exercise
Exercise stress tests are commonly used in clinical settings to monitor the functional state of the heart and vasculature. Large artery stiffness is one measure of arterial function that can be quantified noni...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:109 -
Quantitative three-dimensional myocardial perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance with accurate two-dimensional arterial input function assessment
Quantification of myocardial perfusion from first-pass cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images at high contrast agent (CA) dose requires separate acquisition of blood pool and myocardial tissue enhancem...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:108 -
Contrast-free detection of myocardial fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with diffusion-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Previous studies have shown that diffusion-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance (DW-CMR) is highly sensitive to replacement fibrosis of chronic myocardial infarction. Despite this sensitivity to myocardi...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:107 -
Distal coronary embolization following acute myocardial infarction increases early infarct size and late left ventricular wall thinning in a porcine model
Distal coronary embolization (DCE) of thrombotic material occurs frequently during percutaneous interventions for acute myocardial infarction and can alter coronary flow grades. The significance of DCE on infa...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:106 -
Segmented nitinol guidewires with stiffness-matched connectors for cardiovascular magnetic resonance catheterization: preserved mechanical performance and freedom from heating
Conventional guidewires are not suitable for use during cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) catheterization. They employ metallic shafts for mechanical performance, but which are conductors subject to radi...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:105 -
Parallel simulations for QUAntifying RElaxation magnetic resonance constants (SQUAREMR): an example towards accurate MOLLI T1 measurements
T1 mapping is widely used today in CMR, however, it underestimates true T1 values and its measurement error is influenced by several acquisition parameters. The purpose of this study was the extraction of accu...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:104 -
Prognostic utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance upright maximal treadmill exercise testing
Left ventricular wall motion abnormalities (LVWMA) observed during cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) pharmacologic stress testing can be used to determine cardiac prognosis, but currently, information re...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:103 -
T1 at 1.5T and 3T compared with conventional T2* at 1.5T for cardiac siderosis
Myocardial black blood (BB) T2* relaxometry at 1.5T provides robust, reproducible and calibrated non-invasive assessment of cardiac iron burden. In vitro data has shown that like T2*, novel native Modified Loo...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:102 -
Breath-hold imaging of the coronary arteries using Quiescent-Interval Slice-Selective (QISS) magnetic resonance angiography: pilot study at 1.5 Tesla and 3 Tesla
Coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is usually obtained with a free-breathing navigator-gated 3D acquisition. Our aim was to develop an alternative breath-hold approach that would allow the coronary ...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:101 -
Patients with exercise-associated ventricular ectopy present evidence of myocarditis
The origin and clinical relevance of exercise-induced premature ventricular beats (PVBs) in patients without coronary heart disease or cardiomyopathies is unknown. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance enables us ...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:100 -
Review of Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2014
There were 102 articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) in 2014, which is a 6 % decrease on the 109 articles published in 2013. The quality of the submissions continues to ...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:99 -
Unrecognized myocardial infarctions assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance are associated with the severity of the stenosis in the supplying coronary artery
A previous study has shown an increased prevalence of late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance (LGE CMR) detected unrecognized myocardial infarction (UMI) with increasing extent and severi...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:98 -
Myocardial tissue characterization in Chagas’ heart disease by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Chagas’ heart disease is an important public health problem in South America. Several aspects of the pathogenesis are not fully understood, especially in its subclinical phases. On pathology Chagas’ heart dise...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:97 -
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance techniques and findings in children with myocarditis: a multicenter retrospective study
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly used to diagnose myocarditis in adults but its use in children is not well-established. We sought to describe the presentation, CMR protocol and findings...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:96 -
Time course of cardiometabolic alterations in a high fat high sucrose diet mice model and improvement after GLP-1 analog treatment using multimodal cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Cardiovascular complications of obesity and diabetes are major health problems. Assessing their development, their link with ectopic fat deposition and their flexibility with therapeutic intervention is essent...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:95 -
Impact of arrhythmia on diagnostic performance of adenosine stress CMR in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease
The diagnostic performance of adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in patients with arrhythmias presenting for work-up of suspected or known CAD is largely unknown, since most CMR studies c...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:94 -
2D cine DENSE with low encoding frequencies accurately quantifies cardiac mechanics with improved image characteristics
Displacement Encoding with Stimulated Echoes (DENSE) encodes displacement into the phase of the magnetic resonance signal. The encoding frequency (ke) maps the measured phase to tissue displacement while the stre...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:93 -
Fast T2 gradient-spin-echo (T2-GraSE) mapping for myocardial edema quantification: first in vivo validation in a porcine model of ischemia/reperfusion
Several T2-mapping sequences have been recently proposed to quantify myocardial edema by providing T2 relaxation time values. However, no T2-mapping sequence has ever been validated against actual myocardial w...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:92 -
Increased pericardial fat accumulation is associated with increased intramyocardial lipid content and duration of highly active antiretroviral therapy exposure in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a 3T cardiovascular magnetic resonance feasibility study
The aim of the current study was to examine whether the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in patients with HIV is associated with changes in pericardial fat and myocardial lipid content measu...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:91 -
Gadolinium free cardiovascular magnetic resonance with 2-point Cine balanced steady state free precession
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) of ventricular structure and function is widely performed using cine balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) MRI. The bSSFP signal of myocardium is weighted by mag...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:90 -
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance findings in patients with PRKAG2 gene mutations
Autosomal dominantly inherited PRKAG2 cardiac syndrome is due to a unique defect of the cardiac cell metabolism and has a distinctive histopathology with excess intracellular glycogen, and prognosis different ...
Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:89