Quantification in cardiac MRI: advances in image acquisition and processing
Key result
Recent advances in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging hardware and software have significantly improved image quality and reduced imaging time for the quantification of ventricular function and blood flow.
Design
Review
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Implication
May streamline CMR quantification in practice; extends technical literature but warrants prospective outcome trials.
PICO
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Population
Cardiac disease
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Intervention / Comparator
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging
Recent advances in cardiac MRI hardware and software have improved image quality, reduced imaging time, and enabled automated quantification of cardiac function and morphology.
Limitations
- Quantitative analysis of images often still relies on manual tracing of contours, which is a time-consuming process.
- Relatively poor depiction of the most basal section with currently employed slice thickness values of 5-10 mm.
- Significant myocardial motion in the through-plane direction contributes to the complexity of analysis at the most basal section.
Cite This Study
Attili et al. (2010) conducted a review in Cardiac disease. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging was evaluated. Recent advances in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging hardware and software have significantly improved image quality and reduced imaging time for the quantification of ventricular function and blood flow.