Abstract
2076 Comparison between black and bright blood T2* measurements in thalassemia
Highlights
Abstracts of the 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2008 Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1532-429X-10-S1-info.pdf
Iron detection using myocardial T2* values derived from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has been reported in significant sized populations [1,2], and validated [3,4,5,6]
The recent development of a T2* sequence with black blood preparation provides more clearly defined endocardial borders and reduces artifacts from blood which affects the myocardial signal measurement and this has been shown to have improved reproducibility [7]. It was demonstrated on 10 patients [7] that the T2* measurements from both sequences were comparable, it is of clinical interest to compare them on a large population of patients
Summary
Iron detection using myocardial T2* values derived from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has been reported in significant sized populations [1,2], and validated [3,4,5,6]. 2076 Comparison between black and bright blood T2* Address: Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, London, UK * Corresponding author from 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions Los Angeles, CA, USA. Published: 22 October 2008 Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008, 10(Suppl 1):A345 doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-S1-A345
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