Abstract
Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Figure 1 Typical T2 prepared (b = 0 s/mm) images, DWI (b = 450 s/mm) in three orthogonal directions, and ADC maps for M1M2 (top) and TRSE (bottom) diffusion preparation. M1M2 diffusion-prepared images clearly depict myocardium with minimal artifacts and yield reasonable myocardial trADC values. TRSE diffusion-prepared images present ghosting artifacts and signal drop out that are expected to arise in bulk motion corrupted diffusion-prepared sequences. LV trADC value derived from TRSE diffusion preparation are beyond diffusion of free water at 37°C (3.1 × 10 mm/s). Nguyen et al. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2014, 16(Suppl 1):O83 http://www.jcmr-online.com/content/16/S1/O83
Highlights
Cardiac diffusion-weighted MRI has the potential to identify acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis, and myocardial fibrosis [1-3]
M1M2 diffusion-prepared scans resulted in left ventricular (LV) Trace apparent diffusion coefficient (trADC) values of 1.5 ± 0.4 × 10-3 mm2/s that were reproducible yielding no statistical differences (p = 0.54)
Under certain substantial offresonance frequencies (e.g +200 Hz), the proposed method failed in yielding both T2prep and DW images when bSSFP-related banding formed
Summary
Cardiac diffusion-weighted MRI has the potential to identify acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis, and myocardial fibrosis [1-3].
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