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Dual breath-hold magnetic resonance cine evaluation of global and regional cardiac function

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The purpose of our study was to evaluate the accuracy of a multislice cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique with parallel imaging in regard to global and regional left ventricular function. Forty-two individuals underwent cine MRI on a 1.5-tesla scanner. Cine MRI used a steady-state free precession technique and was performed as a single-slice technique (nonTSENSE cine) and an accelerated multislice technique (TSENSE cine) with five slices per breath-hold. End diastolic volume (EDV), end systolic volume (ESV), and ejection fraction (EF) were evaluated for all data sets and in regard to regional wall motion and regional wall motion analysis, and quantitative regional wall thickness and systolic thickening were also assessed. EDV, ESV, and EF based on TSENSE cine showed excellent correlation to the nonTSENSE cine approach (all r2=0.99, P<0.001). While EDV evaluations showed a small underestimation for TSENSE cine, ESV and EF showed accurate results compared with nonTSENSE cine. Both readers showed good agreement (κ=0.72) in regional wall motion assessment comparing both techniques. Data acquisition for the multislice approach was significantly shorter (∼75%) that in single-slice cine. We conclude that accurate evaluation of regional wall motion and left ventricular EF is possible using accelerated multislice cine MR with high spatial and temporal resolution.

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  1. Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

    Bernd J. Wintersperger, Olaf Dietrich, Armin Huber, Maximilian F. Reiser & Stefan O. Schoenberg

  2. Department of Radiology, Scott & White Clinic & Hospital, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Temple, TX, USA

    Spencer Sincleair & Val M. Runge

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Wintersperger, B.J., Sincleair, S., Runge, V.M. et al. Dual breath-hold magnetic resonance cine evaluation of global and regional cardiac function. Eur Radiol 17, 73–80 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-006-0259-5

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