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Imaging study demonstrates optimized spiral MRI reduces myocardial T2 measurement variability in healthy volunteers, suggesting robust assessment of cardiac microcirculation.
Microcirculation oxygen levels and blood volumes should be reflected in measurements of myocardial T(2) relaxation. This work describes the optimization of a spiral imaging strategy for robust myocardial T(2) measurement to minimize the standard deviation of T(2) measurement (sigmaT(2)). Theoretical and experimental studies of blurring at muscle/blood interfaces enabled the derivation of parameter sets which reduce sigma T(2) to the level of 5%. T(2) relaxation mapping within healthy volunteers provided estimation of residual sigmaT(2) within the optimized technique. The standard deviation in T(2) measurement across regions of interest (ROIs) in different locations is about 9%. The standard deviation in T(2) measurement in an ROI across different time points is about 5%.
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