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Comparison of cardiac MRI tissue tracking and myocardial tagging for assessment of regional ventricular strain

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This study sought to compare regional measures of ventricular strain by tissue tracking (TT) to those derived from myocardial tagging (MT) within cardiac MR (CMR), in normal subjects and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. CMR images from 13 normal subjects and 11 subjects with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were retrospectively analyzed. For each subject, equivalent mid-papillary level short-axis cine steady-state free precession and MT slices from the same examination were evaluated. The time to peak circumferential strain and magnitude of the peak strain were calculated for 6 matched left ventricular segments. Data from 24 slices (n = 144 segments) were compared. The mean difference between techniques in magnitude of peak strain and time to peak strain was 1 ± 9% and 1 ± 58 ms, respectively. The mean difference in the standard deviation of time to peak strain within a slice was 0 ± 19 ms (mean cardiac cycle duration 1,013 ± 204 ms). Bland–Altman analysis showed closer agreement in time to peak strain than peak strain magnitude. Measurements of segmental time to peak strain by TT and MT were in close agreement; agreement for the magnitude of peak segmental strain was more modest. The TT approach does not add to CMR examination time and may be a useful tool for the assessment of ventricular synchrony.

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Funding was provided by the National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    David M. Harrild, Tal Geva, Jing Zhou, Edward Marcus & Andrew J. Powell

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    David M. Harrild, Tal Geva, Jing Zhou, Edward Marcus & Andrew J. Powell

  3. Department of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Yuchi Han

  4. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Yuchi Han

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Harrild, D.M., Han, Y., Geva, T. et al. Comparison of cardiac MRI tissue tracking and myocardial tagging for assessment of regional ventricular strain. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 28, 2009–2018 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-012-0035-3

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