Left ventricular dyssynchrony can be observed via cine CMR with use of aortic valve timing

Background Cine CMR is the gold standard for evaluation of left ventricular function with high spatial and temporal resolution of the EKG-gated acquisition. Measurements of dyssynchrony have previously been performed using myocardial tagging to measure relative delays in peak shortening of opposing walls. We aim to utilize non-tagged images to quantify dyssynchrony in clinical patients. This is performed by combining aortic valve timing information from a left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) image series with segmentations of short axis datasets.