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Background  Today feature tracking (FT) is considered to be a robust assessment tool in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for strain assessment. The FT algorithm is dependent on a high contrast between blood pool and myocardium. Extracellular contrast agents decrease blood-myocardial contrast in SSFP images and thus might affect FT results. However, in a routine CMR scan, SSFP-cine images including short axis views are partly acquired after contrast agent injection. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of extracellular contrast agent (Gadobutrol) (CA) on the precision and reproducibility of the feature tracking algorithm.    Methods  A total of 40 patient volunteers (mean age 51.2 ± 19 years; mean LVEF 61 ± 9 %) were scanned in supine position on a clinical 1.5 T MR scanner (Philips Ingenia). SSFP-cine images in midventricular short axis view (SA) as well as horizontal long axis view (HLA) were acquired before and 10–15 min after injection of a double dose Gadobutrol. FT derived systolic circumferential and longitudinal strain parameters were then calculated for pre- and post-contrast images.    Results  FT derived midventricular peak systolic circumferential strain (PSCS) (-24.8 ± 6.4 % vs. -20.4 ± 6.3 %), apical PSCS (-28.67 ± 6.5 % vs. -24.06 ± 8.5 %), basal PSCS (-24.42 % ± 6.5 vs. -20.68 ± 7.1 %), peak systolic longitudinal strain (-19.57 ± 3.3 % vs. -17.24 ± 4.1 %), midventricular epicardial PSCS (-9.84 ± 3.4 % vs. -8.13 ± 3.4 %) , midventricular PSCS-rate (-1.52 ± 0.4 vs. -1.28 ± 0.5) and peak diastolic circumferential strain rate (1.4 ± 0.5 vs. 1.05 ± 0.5) were significantly reduced after CA application. Post CA strain assessment showed higher intra- and interobserver variability. Pre-CA: intraobserver: mean 0.21, Limits of agreement (LoA) -2.8 and 3.2; interobserver: mean 0.64, LoA -2.8 and 4.1. Post-CA: intraobserver: mean -0.11, LoA -5.1 to 4.9; interobserver: mean 4.93 LoA 2.4 to 12.2.    Conclusion  The FT algorithm is dependent on a high contrast between blood and myocardium. Post CA strain results are significantly lower and less reproducible than pre-CA strain results.

The effects of extracellular contrast agent (Gadobutrol) on the precision and reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking