Background Mitral regurgitation (MR) is clinically important for patients with prosthetic mitral valves (PMV). While CMR can quantify MR based on flow, this requires dedicated imaging. Cine-CMR (SSFP) provides an alternative approach, whereby MR can be graded based on regurgitation-associated intervoxel dephasing. As cine-CMR is a standard component of nearly all exams, it could be used to scre...

Background Cine DENSE MRI is an established myocardial strain imaging technique with high accuracy and rapid data analysis. Current cine DENSE protocols utilize breathholding (BH); however, this practice limits the use of this technique to patients with good BH capabilities, excluding many pediatric and some heart failure patients. We propose a free-breathing (FB) framework for cine DENSE that ...

Background 3D cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) directly encodes tissue displacement into MR phase data, providing a comprehensive 3D view of cardiac motion and strain. Unfortunately, 3D cine DENSE motion analysis presently requires manually delineated anatomy. An automated analysis would reduce interobserver variability, improve measurement throughput, and simplify data...

BACKGROUND In patients with cancer receiving potentially cardio-toxic chemotherapy, measurements of left ventricular (LV) circumferential or longitudinal strain are often used clinically to identify myocardial dysfunction. Using a new software algorithm, we sought to determine in individuals receiving treatment for cancer the association between automated assessments of LV mean mid-wall circumf...

Background Left ventricular mass (LVM) quantification by cine-CMR is typically performed by planimetry of contiguous LV short axis images. This approach relies on use of anatomic landmarks or quantitative binary cutoffs to define the basal-most aspect of the LV. Methodological discordance concerning criteria for LV basal slice selection has the potential to alter cine-CMR quantified LVM. This s...

Background For patients with arrhythmia, conventional segmented steady-state free precession sequence (CINE-SSFP) methods may result in poor image quality. Real-time cine could avoid those limitations, however poor spatial and temporal resolutions of conventional sequences have prevented its routine application. Recently a newly developed compressed sensing (CS) cine shows the ability to provid...

PURPOSE To assess the usefulness of cine-magnetic resonance imaging (cine-MRI)in the evaluation of chest wall invasion, we compared the results of cine-MRI with those of computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (US). MATERIALS AND METHODS Eleven patients were examined who had no pain and who were difficult to diagnose by routine examinations. MRI was performed with a Magnetom SP/4000, 1.5...

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate whether the signal intensity (SI) of myocardial infarction (MI) on contrast enhanced (CE)-cine MRI is useful for differentiating recently infarcted myocardium from chronic scar. This study included 24 patients with acute MI (36-84 years, mean age: 57) and 19 patients with chronic MI (44-80 years, mean age: 64). The diagnosis of acute MI was based on t...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to validate cardiac measurements derived from real-time cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as compared with well-validated conventional cine MRI. BACKGROUND Although cardiac MRI provides accurate assessment of left ventricular (LV) volume and mass, most techniques have been relatively slow and required electrocardiogram (ECG) gating over many hea...