Myocardial T2 mapping is better than T2W Turbo Spin Echo for the diagnosis of acute myocarditis at 3T CMR
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Background Myocardial edema is usually assessed by T2W Turbo Spin Echo (TSE), using either Triple Inversion Recovery (STIR) or Double Inversion Recovery (DIR) with spectral fat saturation. Both TSE sequences have important drawbacks, such as low SNR when using the body coil, dropout of the lateral wall signal and use of semi-quantitative analysis by computing the ratio of myocardial to skeletal muscle signal intensity. We aimed to test a newly developed SSFP-based bright blood sequence that uses surface coils and quantifies myocardial T2 times on a pixel-by-pixel basis (T2 mapping).
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