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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

Feasibility of real-time cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to predict the presence of significant retrosternal adhesions prior to redo-sternotomy

Injury to vital structures posterior to the sternum is a complication associated with redo sternotomy in congenital cardiac surgery. The goal of our study was a novel evaluation of real-time cine cardiovascula...

Authors: Riad Abou Zahr, Vasu Gooty, Animesh Tandon, Gerald Greil, Timothy Pirolli, Ryan Davies, Robert Jaquiss, Claudio Ramaciotti and Tarique Hussain

Surveillance of abdominal aortic aneurysm using accelerated 3D non-contrast black-blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance with compressed sensing (CS-DANTE-SPACE)

3D non-contrast high-resolution black-blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) (DANTE-SPACE) has been used for surveillance of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and validated against computed tomography (CT...

Authors: Chengcheng Zhu, Lizhen Cao, Zhaoying Wen, Sinyeob Ahn, Esther Raithel, Christoph Forman, Michael Hope and David Saloner

Accelerated aortic 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance using compressed sensing: applicability, validation and clinical integration

Three-dimensional time-resolved phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (4D flow CMR) enables the quantification and visualisation of blood flow, but its clinical applicability remains hampered by its...

Authors: Elisabeth Neuhaus, Kilian Weiss, Rene Bastkowski, Jonas Koopmann, David Maintz and Daniel Giese

Fast self-navigated wall shear stress measurements in the murine aortic arch using radial 4D-phase contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance at 17.6 T

4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and the assessment of wall shear stress (WSS) are non-invasive tools to study cardiovascular risks in vivo. Major limitations of conventional triggered methods a...

Authors: Patrick Winter, Kristina Andelovic, Thomas Kampf, Fabian Tobias Gutjahr, Julius Heidenreich, Alma Zernecke, Wolfgang Rudolf Bauer, Peter Michael Jakob and Volker Herold

Decreased rotational flow and circumferential wall shear stress as early markers of descending aorta dilation in Marfan syndrome: a 4D flow CMR study

Diseases of the descending aorta have emerged as a clinical issue in Marfan syndrome following improvements in proximal aorta surgical treatment and the consequent increase in life expectancy. Although a role ...

Authors: A. Guala, G. Teixido-Tura, L. Dux-Santoy, C. Granato, A. Ruiz-Muñoz, F. Valente, L. Galian-Gay, L. Gutiérrez, T. González-Alujas, K. M. Johnson, O. Wieben, A. Sao Avilés, A. Evangelista and J. Rodriguez-Palomares

Improved co-registration of ex-vivo and in-vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance images using heart-specific flexible 3D printed acrylic scaffold combined with non-rigid registration

Ex-vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has played an important role in the validation of in-vivo CMR characterization of pathological processes. However, comparison between in-vivo and ex-vivo...

Authors: John Whitaker, Radhouene Neji, Nicholas Byrne, Esther Puyol-Antón, Rahul K. Mukherjee, Steven E. Williams, Henry Chubb, Louisa O’Neill, Orod Razeghi, Adam Connolly, Kawal Rhode, Steven Niederer, Andrew King, Cory Tschabrunn, Elad Anter, Reza Nezafat…

Machine learning in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: basic concepts and applications

Machine learning (ML) is making a dramatic impact on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in many ways. This review seeks to highlight the major areas in CMR where ML, and deep learning in particular, can a...

Authors: Tim Leiner, Daniel Rueckert, Avan Suinesiaputra, Bettina Baeßler, Reza Nezafat, Ivana Išgum and Alistair A. Young

Model-based myocardial T1 mapping with sparsity constraints using single-shot inversion-recovery radial FLASH cardiovascular magnetic resonance

This study develops a model-based myocardial T1 mapping technique with sparsity constraints which employs a single-shot inversion-recovery (IR) radial fast low angle shot (FLASH) cardiovascular magnetic resona...

Authors: Xiaoqing Wang, Florian Kohler, Christina Unterberg-Buchwald, Joachim Lotz, Jens Frahm and Martin Uecker

Assessment of the regional distribution of normalized circumferential strain in the thoracic and abdominal aorta using DENSE cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Displacement Encoding with Stimulated Echoes (DENSE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) of the aortic wall offers the potential to improve patient-specific diagnostics and prognostics of diverse aortopath...

Authors: John S. Wilson, W. Robert Taylor and John Oshinski

Quantification of lung water in heart failure using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Pulmonary edema is a cardinal feature of heart failure but no quantitative tests are available in clinical practice. The goals of this study were to develop a simple cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) app...

Authors: Richard B. Thompson, Kelvin Chow, Joseph J. Pagano, Viktor Sekowski, Evangelos D. Michelakis, Wayne Tymchak, Mark J. Haykowsky, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Gavin Y. Oudit, Jason R. B. Dyck, Padma Kaul, Anamaria Savu and D. Ian Paterson

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance-guided right heart catheterization in a conventional CMR environment – predictors of procedure success and duration in pulmonary artery hypertension

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is valuable for the investigation and management of pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), but the direct measurement of pulmonary hemodynamics by right heart cath...

Authors: Daniel S. Knight, Tushar Kotecha, Ana Martinez-Naharro, James T. Brown, Michele Bertelli, Marianna Fontana, Vivek Muthurangu and J. Gerry Coghlan

Characterizing cardiac involvement in amyloidosis using cardiovascular magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging

In-vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allows imaging of alterations of cardiac fiber architecture in diseased hearts. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) causes myocardial infiltr...

Authors: Alexander Gotschy, Constantin von Deuster, Robbert J. H. van Gorkum, Mareike Gastl, Ella Vintschger, Rahel Schwotzer, Andreas J. Flammer, Robert Manka, Christian T. Stoeck and Sebastian Kozerke

Dynamic quantitative nonenhanced magnetic resonance angiography of the abdominal aorta and lower extremities using cine fast interrupted steady-state in combination with arterial spin labeling: a feasibility study

Cine fast interrupted steady-state in combination with arterial spin labeling is a recently described nonenhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) technique that relies on bolus tracking for time-resolved ...

Authors: Emily A. Aherne, Ioannis Koktzoglou, Benjamin B. Lind and Robert R. Edelman

Multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in acute myocarditis: a comparison of different measurement approaches

Myocardial T1 and T2 mapping are reliable diagnostic markers for the detection and follow up of acute myocarditis. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance of current mapping measurement...

Authors: Darius Dabir, Thomas M. Vollbrecht, Julian A. Luetkens, Daniel L. R. Kuetting, Alexander Isaak, Andreas Feisst, Rolf Fimmers, Alois M. Sprinkart, Hans H. Schild and Daniel Thomas

Prognostic value of novel imaging parameters derived from standard cardiovascular magnetic resonance in high risk patients with systemic light chain amyloidosis

The differentiated assessment of functional parameters besides morphological changes is essential for the evaluation of prognosis in systemic immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis.

Authors: Nisha Arenja, Florian Andre, Johannes H. Riffel, Fabian aus dem Siepen, Ute Hegenbart, Stefan Schönland, Arnt V. Kristen, Hugo A. Katus and Sebastian J. Buss

Genetic variants of HIF1α are associated with right ventricular fibrotic load in repaired tetralogy of Fallot patients: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Studies suggest that right ventricular (RV) fibrosis is associated with RV remodeling and long-term outcomes in patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Pre-operative hypoxia may increase expression of hypoxia...

Authors: Thanh T. Hoang, Paulo Henrique Manso, Sharon Edman, Laura Mercer-Rosa, Laura E. Mitchell, Anshuman Sewda, Michael D. Swartz, Mark A. Fogel, A. J. Agopian and Elizabeth Goldmuntz

The amount of late gadolinium enhancement outperforms current guideline-recommended criteria in the identification of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at risk of sudden cardiac death

Identifying the patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in whom the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) justifies the implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in primary prevention remains cha...

Authors: Pedro Freitas, António Miguel Ferreira, Edmundo Arteaga-Fernández, Murrilo de Oliveira Antunes, João Mesquita, João Abecasis, Hugo Marques, Carla Saraiva, Daniel Nascimento Matos, Rita Rodrigues, Nuno Cardim, Charles Mady and Carlos Eduardo Rochitte

Neural-network classification of cardiac disease from ³¹P cardiovascular magnetic resonance spectroscopy measures of creatine kinase energy metabolism

The heart’s energy demand per gram of tissue is the body’s highest and creatine kinase (CK) metabolism, its primary energy reserve, is compromised in common heart diseases. Here, neural-network analysis is use...

Authors: Meiyappan Solaiyappan, Robert G. Weiss and Paul A. Bottomley

mDixon ECG-gated 3-dimensional cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography in patients with congenital cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) angiography (CMRA) is an important non-invasive imaging tool for congenital heart disease (CHD) and aortopathy patients. The conventional 3D balanced steady-state free p...

Authors: Soultana Kourtidou, Marty R. Jones, Ryan A. Moore, Justin T. Tretter, Nicholas J. Ollberding, Eric J. Crotty, Mantosh S. Rattan, Robert J. Fleck and Michael D. Taylor

Echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance based evaluation of myocardial strain and relationship with late gadolinium enhancement

We sought to: (1) determine the agreement in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) derived strain measurements, (2) compare their reproducibility, (3) determine wh...

Authors: Jennifer Erley, Davide Genovese, Natalie Tapaskar, Nazia Alvi, Nina Rashedi, Stephanie A. Besser, Keigo Kawaji, Neha Goyal, Sebastian Kelle, Roberto M. Lang, Victor Mor-Avi and Amit R. Patel

High-energy external defibrillation and transcutaneous pacing during MRI: feasibility and safety

Rapid application of external defibrillation, a crucial first-line therapy for ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest, is currently unavailable in the setting of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), raising ...

Authors: Vladimir Shusterman, Denice Hodgson-Zingman, Daniel Thedens, Xiaodong Zhu, Stacy Hoffman, Jessica C. Sieren, Gina M. Morgan, Anthony Faranesh and Barry London