Abstract
To assess the accuracy of automatic extraction of the left ventricular inner contour on contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine magnetic resonance (MR) images, we compared the values obtained by this method with those obtained using intravenous digital subtraction left ventriculography. High-quality single breath-hold contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine MR images were obtained in all cardiac phases on horizontal and vertical long axis sections of the left ventricle. For ultrafast cine MR imaging, a phase-rewind gradient-echo (rewind-SMASH) sequence was used. Automatic extraction of the left ventricular inner contour on contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine MR images was performed in all cardiac phases. High-quality left ventricular images of the horizontal long axis section were obtained in 127 of 160 patients (79%). The automatic extraction of the left ventricular contour was easily performed on high-quality images with very short processing time (4 s/frame). The values for left ventricular volumes obtained with the automatic extraction method on contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine MR imaging were correlated well with those obtained with the manual extraction method and IV-DSA in high quality cardiac images. The biplane modified Simpson's method using automatic extraction is an accurate and highly reproducible method for evaluating left ventricular volumes.
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