Pressure-gated acquisition of cardiac MR images.

Pirolo, J S; Branham, B H; Creswell, L L; Perman, W H; Vannier, M W; Pasque, M K · Radiology · 1992

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Electrocardiographically gated magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition is not optimal for the quantification of in vivo cardiac deformation, because of the cycle-length dependence of cardiac mechanical events. The authors developed a method for acquisition of cardiac MR images gated to the first derivative of left-ventricular-developed pressure and used the method in a canine model. Application of this method may improve myocardial stress-strain analyses.

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