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Vibration‐synchronized magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of myocardial elasticity changes
Author(s) -
Elgeti Thomas,
Tzschätzsch Heiko,
Hirsch Sebastian,
Krefting Dagmar,
Klatt Dieter,
Niendorf Thoralf,
Braun Jürgen,
Sack Ingolf
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.24185
Subject(s) - magnetic resonance elastography , magnetic resonance imaging , amplitude , cardiac cycle , nuclear magnetic resonance , elastography , vibration , physics , biomedical engineering , materials science , ultrasound , acoustics , optics , medicine , cardiology , radiology
Vibration synchronized magnetic resonance imaging of harmonically oscillating tissue interfaces is proposed for cardiac magnetic resonance elastography. The new approach exploits cardiac triggered cine imaging synchronized with extrinsic harmonic stimulation ( f = 22.83 Hz) to display oscillatory tissue deformations in magnitude images. Oscillations are analyzed by intensity threshold‐based image processing to track wave amplitude variations over the cardiac cycle. In agreement to literature data, results in 10 volunteers showed that endocardial wave amplitudes during systole (0.13 ± 0.07 mm) were significantly lower than during diastole (0.34 ± 0.14 mm, P < 0.001). Wave amplitudes were found to decrease 117 ± 40 ms before myocardial contraction and to increase 75 ± 31 ms before myocardial relaxation. Vibration synchronized magnetic resonance imaging improves the temporal resolution of magnetic resonance elastography as it overcomes the use of extra motion encoding gradients, is less sensitive to susceptibility artifacts, and does not suffer from dynamic range constraints frequently encountered in phase‐based magnetic resonance elastography. Magn Reson Med, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.