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Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Myocardial Feature Tracking Detects Quantitative Wall Motion During Dobutamine Stress., Andreas Schuster, Shelby Kutty, Asif Padiyath, Victoria Parish, Paul Gribben, David A. Danford, Marcus R. Makowski, Boris Bigalke, Philipp Beerbaum, Eike Nagel
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Myocardial Feature Tracking Detects Quantitative Wall Motion During Dobutamine Stress., Andreas Schuster, Shelby Kutty, Asif Padiyath, Victoria Parish, Paul Gribben, David A. Danford, Marcus R. Makowski, Boris Bigalke, Philipp Beerbaum, Eike Nagel
Journal Articles: Pediatrics
BACKGROUND: Dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (DS-CMR) is an established tool to assess hibernating myocardium and ischemia. Analysis is typically based on visual assessment with considerable operator dependency. CMR myocardial feature tracking (CMR-FT) is a recently introduced technique for tissue voxel motion tracking on standard steady-state free precession (SSFP) images to derive circumferential and radial myocardial mechanics.We sought to determine the feasibility and reproducibility of CMR-FT for quantitative wall motion assessment during intermediate dose DS-CMR.
METHODS: 10 healthy subjects were studied at 1.5 Tesla. Myocardial strain parameters were derived from SSFP cine images using dedicated CMR-FT software (Diogenes MRI prototype; …