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01.09.2007 | Cardiac
Myocardial tagging with steady state free precession techniques and semi-automatic postprocessing—impact on diagnostic value
verfasst von:
Thorsten R. C. Johnson, Nicole Bayrhof, Armin Huber, Joost P. A. Kuijer, Roger Luechinger, Olaf Dietrich, Dietrich Stoevesandt, Dorthe Pedersen, Maximilian F. Reiser, Stefan O. Schoenberg
Erschienen in:
European Radiology
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Ausgabe 9/2007
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Abstract
Our aim was to determine the diagnostic value of myocardial tagging sequences with regard to the evaluable share of the cardiac cycle. Thirty-three patients were examined at 1.5 T using tagging sequences with gradient-echo (GRE) readout, 18 patients at 1.5 T with steady-state free precession (SSFP), and 11 patients at 3 T using GRE. Two observers graded image quality and determined the share of the cardiac cycle for which postprocessing could be performed (1, optimal; 2, little interaction; 3, whole cycle assessable; 4, diastole non-assessable; 5, systole incomplete; 6, non-diagnostic). With GRE at 1.5 T, median image quality was 4.0 (95% CI 4.0–5.0), while it was significantly better with 2.0 (2.0–3.0) using the SSFP technique and similar at 3 T with 2.9 (1.7–3.5). With GRE at 1.5 T, systole could be assessed in 69% of patients, and an evaluation of the whole cardiac cycle was not possible. With the SSFP sequence at 1.5 T and GRE at 3 T, an evaluation of the whole cardiac cycle was possible in 71% and 70% of the patients, respectively, and systole was assessable in all patients. Tagging sequences with SSFP readout at 1.5 T make a semi-automatic evaluation of the whole cardiac cycle feasible in a large share of patients.