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2. Simultaneous visualization of left atrial fibrosis and epicardial adipose tissue using 3D Dixon late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance
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Skoda, I, primary, Henningsson, M, additional, and Carlhall, CJ, additional
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- 2021
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3. Ring Network Design by Lagrangean Based Column Generation
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Henningsson, M., Holmberg, K., Rönnqvist, M., and Värbrand, P.
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- 2002
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4. Utvärdering av Forum för adjungerad fakultet vid KTH
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Geschwind, Lars, Fagrell, P., Henningsson, M., Geschwind, Lars, Fagrell, P., and Henningsson, M.
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QC 20170509
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- 2014
5. Intressentanalys av de strategiska partnerskapen : Underlag till KTH Näringslivssamverkans självvärdering till Administrative Assessment Exercise
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Geschwind, Lars, Fagrell, P., Henningsson, M., Geschwind, Lars, Fagrell, P., and Henningsson, M.
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QC 20170509
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- 2014
6. Predicting the Displacement of Yoghurt by Water in a Pipe Using CFD
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Regner, M., primary, Henningsson, M., additional, Wiklund, J., additional, Östergren, K., additional, and Trägårdh, C., additional
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- 2007
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7. Assessment of self-conscious emotions: a Swedish psychometric and structure evaluation of the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA)
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Strömsten LMJ, Henningsson M, Holm U, and Sundbom E
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- 2009
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8. Factors relevant to a return to work: a multivariate approach.
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Hansen A, Edlund C, and Henningsson M
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This paper contributes to the understanding of the factors that are significant for returning to work, and identifies factors that might be used early on in a period of sick leave to discern whether people are likely to work again. In the design, the multivariate Partial Least Squares (PLS) of Latent Structures method was used to analyse information from a questionnaire containing socio-demographic items, and information on symptoms, consequences on daily life, expectations and psychosocial factors. Data about the incidence of sickness over a four-year period was included. 121 adults aged 18-64 years on sick leave participated, irrespective of their diagnoses. A reliable prediction of a return to work required the combination of many factors: individual psychosocial instruments are not useful when considered in isolation. The strongest predictive factors for a return to work concern the individuals' expectations, the number of days of sick leave taken in the past, somatic disorders, and a high level of life satisfaction and sense of coherence. Many factors influence the outcome for people on sick leave: PLS analysis demonstrated that a multivariate approach using this method could predict the long-term outcome early on in a period of sick leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
9. Diagnostic accuracy of Dixon water fat suppression coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography at 3.0 Tesla
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Dp, Ripley, Nezafat M, Jr, Foley, Peter Swoboda, Henningsson M, Vieira M, Ta, Musa, Le, Dobson, Garg P, Erhayiem B, Ak, Mcdiarmid, Plein S, Rm, Botnar, and Jp, Greenwood
10. Comparison of respiratory navigator techniques for interleaved high-resolution coronary vessel wall imaging
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Akcakaya Mehmet, Henningsson Markus, Nezafat Reza, and Botnar Rene M
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
- 2013
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11. Interleaved T2 preparation for simultaneous coronary artery and pulmonary artery and vein visualization
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Butzbach Britta, Andia-Kohnenkampf Marcelo, Henningsson Markus, Hussain Tarique, Valverde Israel, Lossnitzer Dirk, Botnar Rene M, and Greil Gerald F
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
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12. Fat suppression for coronary MR angiography at 3T: 2 point Dixon versus Spectral Presaturation with Inversion Recovery (SPIR)
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Henningsson Markus, Boernert Peter, Koken Peter, and Botnar Rene M
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
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13. 3D saturation recovery imaging for free breathing myocardial T1 mapping
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Henningsson Markus, Botnar Rene M, and Voigt Tobias
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
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14. Improved data acquisition efficiency for respiratory motion correction in coronary MRI
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Moghari Mehdi H, Roujol Sébastien, Henningsson Markus, Chan Raymond H, Hong Susie, Goddu Beth, Goepfert Lois A, Kissinger Kraig V, Manning Warren J, and Nezafat Reza
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
- 2012
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15. Repspiratory motion correction with a 2d self-navigator from bssfp dummy profiles
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Botnar René M, Prieto Claudia, Stehning Christian, Koken Peter, and Henningsson Markus
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Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Published
- 2011
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16. Visualization of coronary arteries in paediatric patients using whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography: comparison of image-navigation and the standard approach for respiratory motion compensation
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Srinivas Ananth Narayan, Israel Valverde, Reza Razavi, Kuberan Pushparajah, Tarique Hussain, Nanda Prabhu, Markus Henningsson, Teresa Correia, Aaron Bell, Sujeev Mathur, Mari Nieves Velasco Forte, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS), [Velasco Forte,MN, Valverde,I, Correia,T, Narayan,SA, Razavi,R, Hussain,T, Pushparajah,K, Henningsson,M] Division of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK. [Velasco Forte,MN, Prabhu,N, Bell,A, Mathur,S, Pushparajah,K] Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. [Velasco Forte,MN, Valverde,I] Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, IBIS, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain. [Hussain,T] Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1935 Medical District Drive, Dallas, USA. [Henningsson,M] Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden., and This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular Healthcare Technology Cooperative (HTC) and Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) awarded to Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London. This work was additionally supported by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering at King’s College London [WT 088641/Z/09/Z) as well as the BHF Centre of Excellence (British Heart Foundation award RE/08/03).
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AimsTo investigate the use of respiratory motion compensation using image-based navigation (iNAV) with constant respiratory efficiency using single end-expiratory thresholding (CRUISE) for coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA), and compare it to the conventional diaphragmatic navigator (dNAV) in paediatric patients with congenital or suspected heart disease.MethodsiNAV allowed direct tracking of the respiratory heart motion and was generated using balanced steady state free precession startup echoes. Respiratory gating was achieved using CRUISE with a fixed 50% efficiency. Whole-heart CMRA was acquired with 1.3mm isotropic resolution. For comparison, CMRA with identical imaging parameters were acquired using dNAV. Scan time, visualization of coronary artery origins and mid-course, imaging quality and sharpness was compared between the two sequences.ResultsForty patients (13 females; median weight: 44kg; median age: 12.6, range: 3months-17years) were enrolled. 25 scans were performed in awake patients. A contrast agent was used in 22 patients. The scan time was significantly reduced using iNAV for awake patients (iNAV 7:481:26 vs dNAV 9:48 +/- 3:11, P=0.01) but not for patients under general anaesthesia (iNAV=6:55 +/- 1:50 versus dNAV=6:32 +/- 2:16; P=0.32). In 98% of the cases, iNAV image quality had an equal or higher score than dNAV. The visual score analysis showed a clear difference, favouring iNAV (P=0.002). The right coronary artery and the left anterior descending vessel sharpness was significantly improved (iNAV: 56.8%+/- 10.1% vs dNAV: 53.7%+/- 9.9%, Pamp;lt;0.002 and iNAV: 55.8%+/- 8.6% vs dNAV: 53%+/- 9.2%, P=0.001, respectively).Conclusion p id=Par4 iNAV allows for a higher success-rate and clearer depiction of the mid-course of coronary arteries in paediatric patients. Its acquisition time is shorter in awake patients and image quality score is equal or superior to the conventional method in most cases. Funding Agencies|National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular Healthcare Technology Cooperative (HTC); Biomedical Research Centre (BRC); Kings College London; Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering at Kings College London [WT 088641/Z/09/Z]; BHF Centre of Excellence (British Heart Foundation) [RE/08/03]
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- 2019
17. Initial results of the Hyperion II D PET insert for simultaneous PET-MRI applied to atherosclerotic plaque imaging in New-Zealand white rabbits.
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Gebhardt P, Lavin B, Phinikaridou A, Mackewn JE, Henningsson M, Schug D, Salomon A, Marsden PK, Schulz V, and Botnar R
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Objective: In preclinical research, in vivo imaging of mice and rats is more
common than any other animal species, since their physiopathology is very well-
known and many genetically altered disease models exist. Animal studies based on
small rodents are usually performed using dedicated preclinical imaging systems
with high spatial resolution. For studies that require animal models such as mini-
pigs or New-Zealand White (NZW) rabbits, imaging systems with larger bore
sizes are required. In case of hybrid imaging using Positron Emission Tomography
(PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), clinical systems have to be used,
as these animal models do not typically fi t in preclinical simultaneous PET-MRI
scanners.
Approach. In this paper, we present initial imaging results obtained with the
Hyperion IID PET insert which can accommodate NZW rabbits when combined
with a large volume MRI RF coil. First, we developed a rabbit-sized image
quality phantom of comparable size to a NZW rabbit in order to evaluate the
PET imaging performance of the insert under high count rates. For this phantom,
radioactive spheres with inner diameters between 3.95 and 7.86 mm were visible
in a warm background with a tracer activity ratio of 4.1 to 1 and with a total
18-F activity in the phantom of 58MBq at measurement start. Second, we performed
simultaneous PET-MR imaging of atherosclerotic plaques in a rabbit in vivo using
a single injection containing 18-F-FDG for detection of infl ammatory activity,
and Gd-ESMA for visualization of the aortic vessel wall and plaques with MRI.
Main results. The fused PET-MR images reveal 18-F-FDG uptake within an
active plaques with plaque thicknesses in the sub-millimeter range. Histology
showed colocalization of 18-F-FDG uptake with macrophages in the aortic vessel wall lesions. 
Significance. Our initial results demonstrate that this PET insert
is a promising system for simultaneous high-resolution PET-MR atherosclerotic
plaque imaging studies in NZW rabbits., (Creative Commons Attribution license.)
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- 2024
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18. Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Observer Variability of Cortical T1 Mapping for Renal Tissue Characterization.
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Nowak M, Henningsson M, Davis T, Chowdhury N, Dennis A, Fernandes C, Thomaides Brears H, and Robson MD
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Background: The global rise in kidney diseases underscores the need for reliable, noninvasive imaging biomarkers. Among these, renal cortical T1 has shown promise but further technical validation is still required., Purpose: To evaluate the repeatability, reproducibility, and observer variability of kidney cortical T1 mapping in human volunteers without known renal disease., Study Type: Prospective., Subjects: Three cohorts without renal disease: 1) 25 volunteers (median age 38 [interquartile range, IQR: 28-42] years, female N = 11) for scan-rescan assessments on GE 1.5 T and Siemens 1.5 T; 2) 29 volunteers (median age 29 [IQR: 24-40] years, female N = 15) for scan-rescan assessments on Siemens 3 T; and 3) 16 volunteers (median age 34 [IQR: 31-42] years, female N = 8) for cross-scanner reproducibility., Field Strength/sequences: 1.5 T and 3 T, a modified Look-Locker imaging (MOLLI) sequence with a balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) readout., Assessment: Kidney cortical T1 data was acquired on GE 1.5 T scanner, Siemens 1.5 T and 3 T scanners. Within-scanner repeatability and inter/intra-observer variability: GE 1.5 T and Siemens 1.5 T, and cross-scanner manufacturer reproducibility: Siemens 1.5 T-GE 1.5 T., Statistical Tests: Bland Altman analysis, coefficient of variation (CoV), intra-class coefficient (ICC), and repeatability coefficient (RC)., Results: Renal cortical T1 mapping showed high repeatability and reliability across scanner field strengths and manufacturers (repeatability: CoV 1.9%-2.8%, ICC 0.79-0.88, pooled RC 73 msec; reproducibility: CoV 3.0%, ICC 0.75, RC 90 msec). The method also showed robust observer variability (CoV 0.6%-1.4%, ICC 0.93-0.98, RC 22-48 msec)., Data Conclusion: Kidney cortical T1 mapping is a highly repeatable and reproducible method across MRI manufacturers, field strengths, and observer conditions., Evidence Level: 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2., (© 2024 Perspectum. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)
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- 2024
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19. The spatial overlap between left atrial epicardial adipose tissue and fibrosis is not associated to clinical stage of atrial fibrillation.
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Skoda I, Henningsson M, Karlsson LO, and Carlhäll CJ
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- Humans, Male, Female, Middle Aged, Aged, Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Atrial Fibrillation pathology, Atrial Fibrillation physiopathology, Atrial Fibrillation diagnostic imaging, Adipose Tissue pathology, Adipose Tissue diagnostic imaging, Fibrosis, Heart Atria pathology, Heart Atria diagnostic imaging, Heart Atria physiopathology, Pericardium pathology, Pericardium diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Left atrial (LA) epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and wall fibrosis are both proven to contribute to the pathogenesis and progression of atrial fibrillation (AF). The theory of LA wall fibrosis induction by local EAT infiltration, paracrine secretions, and activation of the inflammatory process is strongly advocated, but the imaging evidence for anatomical proximity of the two tissue types and its association to AF stage is lacking. Accordingly, the aim of the study was to analyse the spatial overlap between LA EAT and adjacent wall fibrosis using 3D Dixon water-fat separated late gadolinium enhancement (LGE-Dixon) MRI and correlate the findings with the clinical AF stage. Forty-two AF patients (18 paroxysmal, 10 persistent, and 14 permanent) and nine non-AF patients were scanned. The permanent AF patients had greater LA volume and EAT than the paroxysmal group. The LA fibrosis area showed the same trend. The LA EAT-fibrosis overlap area was small and there was no significant difference between the three AF stages. There was no significant relationship between LA EAT- fibrosis overlap area and AF type. The findings shed light on the complex interplay between LA fibrosis and EAT during the progression from paroxysmal to permanent AF., (© 2024. The Author(s).)
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- 2024
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20. FK-means: automatic atrial fibrosis segmentation using fractal-guided K-means clustering with Voronoi-clipping feature extraction of anatomical structures.
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Firouznia M, Henningsson M, and Carlhäll CJ
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Assessment of left atrial (LA) fibrosis from late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) adds to the management of patients with atrial fibrillation. However, accurate assessment of fibrosis in the LA wall remains challenging. Excluding anatomical structures in the LA proximity using clipping techniques can reduce misclassification of LA fibrosis. A novel FK-means approach for combined automatic clipping and automatic fibrosis segmentation was developed. This approach combines a feature-based Voronoi diagram with a hierarchical 3D K-means fractal-based method. The proposed automatic Voronoi clipping method was applied on LGE-MRI data and achieved a Dice score of 0.75, similar to the score obtained by a deep learning method (3D UNet) for clipping (0.74). The automatic fibrosis segmentation method, which uses the Voronoi clipping method, achieved a Dice score of 0.76. This outperformed a 3D UNet method for clipping and fibrosis classification, which had a Dice score of 0.69. Moreover, the proposed automatic fibrosis segmentation method achieved a Dice score of 0.90, using manual clipping of anatomical structures. The findings suggest that the automatic FK-means analysis approach enables reliable LA fibrosis segmentation and that clipping of anatomical structures in the atrial proximity can add to the assessment of atrial fibrosis., Competing Interests: We declare we have no competing interests., (© 2023 The Authors.)
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- 2023
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21. Simultaneous Assessment of Left Atrial Fibrosis and Epicardial Adipose Tissue Using 3D Late Gadolinium Enhanced Dixon MRI.
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Skoda I, Henningsson M, Stenberg S, Sundin J, and Carlhäll CJ
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- Adipose Tissue diagnostic imaging, Adult, Aged, Contrast Media, Fibrosis, Heart Atria diagnostic imaging, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Protons, Water, Atrial Fibrillation diagnostic imaging, Atrial Fibrillation pathology, Gadolinium
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Background: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) may induce left atrium (LA) wall inflammation and promote LA fibrosis. Therefore, simultaneous assessment of these two important atrial fibrillation (AF) risk factors would be desirable., Purpose: To perform a comprehensive evaluation of 3D Dixon water-fat separated late gadolinium enhancement (LGE-Dixon) MRI by analysis of repeatability and systematic comparison with reference methods for assessment of fibrosis and fat., Study Type: Prospective., Population: Twenty-eight, 10, and 7 patients, respectively, with clinical indications for cardiac MRI., Field Strength/sequence: A 1.5-T scanner, inversion recovery multiecho spoiled gradient echo., Assessment: Twenty-eight patients (age 58 ± 19 years, 15 males) were scanned using LGE-Dixon. A 5-point Likert-type scale was used to grade the image quality. Another 10 patients (age 46 ± 19 years, 9 males) were scanned using LGE-Dixon and 3D proton density Dixon (PD-Dixon). Finally, seven patients (age 62 ± 14 years, 4 males) were scanned using LGE-Dixon and conventional LGE. The scan time, intraobserver and interobserver variability, and levels of agreement were assessed., Statistical Tests: Student's t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Mann-Whitney U-test were used; P < 0.05 was considered significant, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)., Results: The scan time (minutes:seconds) for LGE-Dixon (n = 28) was 5:01 ± 1:40. ICC values for intraobserver and interobserver measurements of LA wall fibrosis percentage were 0.98 (95% CI, 0.97-0.99) and 0.97 (95% CI, 0.94-0.99) while of EAT were 0.92 (95% CI, 0.82-0.97) and 0.90 (95% CI, 0.80-0.95). The agreement for LA fibrosis percentage between the LGE-Dixon and the conventional LGE was 0.92 (95% CI, 0.66-0.99) and for EAT volume between the LGE-Dixon and the PD-Dixon was 0.93 (95% CI, 0.72-0.98)., Conclusion: LA fibrosis and EAT can be assessed simultaneously using LGE-Dixon. This method allows a high level of intraobserver and interobserver repeatability as well as agreement with reference methods and can be performed in a clinically feasible scan time., Evidence Level: 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY STAGE: 3., (© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)
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- 2022
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22. Non-contrast myocardial perfusion in rest and exercise stress using systolic flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery.
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Henningsson M, Carlhäll CJ, Ebbers T, and Kihlberg J
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- Coronary Circulation physiology, Heart, Humans, Perfusion, Signal-To-Noise Ratio, Myocardial Perfusion Imaging methods
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Objective: To evaluate systolic flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) during rest and exercise stress using 2RR (two cardiac cycles) or 1RR intervals between inversion pulse and imaging., Materials and Methods: 1RR and 2RR FAIR was implemented on a 3T scanner. Ten healthy subjects were scanned during rest and stress. Stress was performed using an in-bore ergometer. Heart rate, mean myocardial blood flow (MBF) and temporal signal-to-noise ratio (TSNR) were compared using paired t tests., Results: Mean heart rate during stress was higher than rest for 1RR FAIR (85.8 ± 13.7 bpm vs 63.3 ± 11.1 bpm; p < 0.01) and 2RR FAIR (83.8 ± 14.2 bpm vs 63.1 ± 10.6 bpm; p < 0.01). Mean stress MBF was higher than rest for 1RR FAIR (2.97 ± 0.76 ml/g/min vs 1.43 ± 0.6 ml/g/min; p < 0.01) and 2RR FAIR (2.8 ± 0.96 ml/g/min vs 1.22 ± 0.59 ml/g/min; p < 0.01). Resting mean MBF was higher for 1RR FAIR than 2RR FAIR (p < 0.05), but not during stress. TSNR was lower for stress compared to rest for 1RR FAIR (4.52 ± 2.54 vs 10.12 ± 3.69; p < 0.01) and 2RR FAIR (7.36 ± 3.78 vs 12.41 ± 5.12; p < 0.01). 2RR FAIR TSNR was higher than 1RR FAIR for rest (p < 0.05) and stress (p < 0.001)., Discussion: We have demonstrated feasibility of systolic FAIR in rest and exercise stress. 2RR delay systolic FAIR enables non-contrast perfusion assessment during stress with relatively high TSNR., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
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- 2022
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23. Clinical evaluation of the Multimapping technique for simultaneous myocardial T 1 and T 2 mapping.
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Jarkman C, Carlhäll CJ, and Henningsson M
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The Multimapping technique was recently proposed for simultaneous myocardial T
1 and T2 mapping. In this study, we evaluate its correlation with clinical reference mapping techniques in patients with a range of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and compare image quality and inter- and intra-observer repeatability. Multimapping consists of an ECG-triggered, 2D single-shot bSSFP readout with inversion recovery and T2 preparation modules, acquired across 10 cardiac cycles. The sequence was implemented at 1.5T and compared to clinical reference mapping techniques, modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) and T2 prepared bSSFP with four echo times (T2 bSSFP), and compared in 47 patients with CVD (of which 44 were analyzed). In diseased myocardial segments (defined as the presence of late gadolinium enhancement), there was a high correlation between Multimapping and MOLLI for native myocardium T1 ( r2 = 0.73), ECV (r2 = 0.91), and blood T1 (r2 = 0.88), and Multimapping and T2 bSSFP for native myocardial T2 (r2 = 0.80). In healthy myocardial segments, a bias for native T1 (Multimapping = 1,116 ± 21 ms, MOLLI = 1,002 ± 21, P < 0.001), post-contrast T1 (Multimapping = 479 ± 31 ms, MOLLI = 426 ± 27 ms, 0.001), ECV (Multimapping = 21.5 ± 1.9%, MOLLI = 23.7 ± 2.3%, P = 0.001), and native T2 (Multimapping = 48.0 ± 3.0 ms, T2 bSSFP = 53.9 ± 3.5 ms, P < 0.001) was observed. The image quality for Multimapping was scored as higher for all mapping techniques (native T1 , post-contrast T1 , ECV, and T2 bSSFP) compared to the clinical reference techniques. The inter- and intra-observer agreements were excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC > 0.9) for most measurements, except for inter-observer repeatability of Multimapping native T1 (ICC = 0.87), post-contrast T1 (ICC = 0.73), and T2 bSSFP native T2 (ICC = 0.88). Multimapping shows high correlations with clinical reference mapping techniques for T1 , T2 , and ECV in a diverse cohort of patients with different cardiovascular diseases. Multimapping enables simultaneous T1 and T2 mapping and can be performed in a short breath-hold, with image quality superior to that of the clinical reference techniques., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Jarkman, Carlhäll and Henningsson.)- Published
- 2022
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24. Cartesian dictionary-based native T 1 and T 2 mapping of the myocardium.
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Henningsson M
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- Humans, Reference Values, Reproducibility of Results, Heart diagnostic imaging, Myocardium, Phantoms, Imaging
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Purpose: To implement and evaluate a new dictionary-based technique for native myocardial T
1 and T2 mapping using Cartesian sampling., Methods: The proposed technique (Multimapping) consisted of single-shot Cartesian image acquisitions in 10 consecutive cardiac cycles, with inversion pulses in cycle 1 and 5, and T2 preparation (TE: 30 ms, 50 ms, and 70 ms) in cycles 8-10. Multimapping was simulated for different T1 and T2 , where entries corresponding to the k-space centers were matched to acquired data. Experiments were performed in a phantom, 16 healthy subjects, and 3 patients with cardiovascular disease., Results: Multimapping phantom measurements showed good agreement with reference values for both T1 and T2 , with no discernable heart-rate dependency for T1 and T2 within the range of myocardium. In vivo mean T1 in healthy subjects was significantly higher using Multimapping (T1 = 1114 ± 14 ms) compared to the reference (T1 = 991 ± 26 ms) (p < 0.01). Mean Multimapping T2 (47.1 ± 1.3 ms) and T2 spatial variability (5.8 ± 1.0 ms) was significantly lower compared to the reference (T2 = 54.7 ± 2.2 ms, p < 0.001; spatial variability = 8.4 ± 2.0 ms, p < 0.01). Increased T1 and T2 was detected in all patients using Multimapping., Conclusions: Multimapping allows for simultaneous native myocardial T1 and T2 mapping with a conventional Cartesian trajectory, demonstrating promising in vivo image quality and parameter quantification results., (© 2022 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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25. High-Resolution Free-Breathing Quantitative First-Pass Perfusion Cardiac MR Using Dual-Echo Dixon With Spatio-Temporal Acceleration.
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Tourais J, Scannell CM, Schneider T, Alskaf E, Crawley R, Bosio F, Sanchez-Gonzalez J, Doneva M, Schülke C, Meineke J, Keupp J, Smink J, Breeuwer M, Chiribiri A, Henningsson M, and Correia T
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Introduction: To develop and test the feasibility of free-breathing (FB), high-resolution quantitative first-pass perfusion cardiac MR (FPP-CMR) using dual-echo Dixon (FOSTERS; Fat-water separation for mOtion-corrected Spatio-TEmporally accelerated myocardial peRfuSion)., Materials and Methods: FOSTERS was performed in FB using a dual-saturation single-bolus acquisition with dual-echo Dixon and a dynamically variable Cartesian k-t undersampling (8-fold) approach, with low-rank and sparsity constrained reconstruction, to achieve high-resolution FPP-CMR images. FOSTERS also included automatic in-plane motion estimation and T 2 * correction to obtain quantitative myocardial blood flow (MBF) maps. High-resolution (1.6 x 1.6 mm
2 ) FB FOSTERS was evaluated in eleven patients, during rest, against standard-resolution (2.6 x 2.6 mm2 ) 2-fold SENSE-accelerated breath-hold (BH) FPP-CMR. In addition, MBF was computed for FOSTERS and spatial wavelet-based compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction. Two cardiologists scored the image quality (IQ) of FOSTERS, CS, and standard BH FPP-CMR images using a 4-point scale (1-4, non-diagnostic - fully diagnostic)., Results: FOSTERS produced high-quality images without dark-rim and with reduced motion-related artifacts, using an 8x accelerated FB acquisition. FOSTERS and standard BH FPP-CMR exhibited excellent IQ with an average score of 3.5 ± 0.6 and 3.4 ± 0.6 (no statistical difference, p > 0.05), respectively. CS images exhibited severe artifacts and high levels of noise, resulting in an average IQ score of 2.9 ± 0.5. MBF values obtained with FOSTERS presented a lower variance than those obtained with CS., Discussion: FOSTERS enabled high-resolution FB FPP-CMR with MBF quantification. Combining motion correction with a low-rank and sparsity-constrained reconstruction results in excellent image quality., Competing Interests: JT, TS, JS-G, JS, and MB are Philips Healthcare employees. MD, CS, JM, and JK are employees of Philips Research Europe. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Tourais, Scannell, Schneider, Alskaf, Crawley, Bosio, Sanchez-Gonzalez, Doneva, Schülke, Meineke, Keupp, Smink, Breeuwer, Chiribiri, Henningsson and Correia.)- Published
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26. Black-Blood Contrast in Cardiovascular MRI.
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Henningsson M, Malik S, Botnar R, Castellanos D, Hussain T, and Leiner T
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- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Physics
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MRI is a versatile technique that offers many different options for tissue contrast, including suppressing the blood signal, so-called black-blood contrast. This contrast mechanism is extremely useful to visualize the vessel wall with high conspicuity or for characterization of tissue adjacent to the blood pool. In this review we cover the physics of black-blood contrast and different techniques to achieve blood suppression, from methods intrinsic to the imaging readout to magnetization preparation pulses that can be combined with arbitrary readouts, including flow-dependent and flow-independent techniques. We emphasize the technical challenges of black-blood contrast that can depend on flow and motion conditions, additional contrast weighting mechanisms (T
1 , T2 , etc.), magnetic properties of the tissue, and spatial coverage. Finally, we describe specific implementations of black-blood contrast for different vascular beds. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 5 TECHNICAL EFFICACY STAGE: 5., (© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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27. Myocardial arterial spin labeling in systole and diastole using flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery with parallel imaging and compressed sensing.
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Henningsson M, Carlhäll CJ, and Kihlberg J
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- Adult, Data Compression, Diastole, Female, Heart Rate, Hemorheology, Humans, Male, Rest, Spin Labels, Systole, Angiography methods, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted methods, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Quantitative myocardial perfusion can be achieved without contrast agents using flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) arterial spin labeling. However, FAIR has an intrinsically low sensitivity, which may be improved by mitigating the effects of physiological noise or by increasing the area of artifact-free myocardium. The aim of this study was to investigate if systolic FAIR may increase the amount of analyzable myocardium compared with diastolic FAIR and its effect on physiological noise. Furthermore, we compare parallel imaging acceleration with a factor of 2 with compressed sensing acceleration with a factor of 3 for systolic FAIR. Twelve healthy subjects were scanned during rest on a 3 T scanner using diastolic FAIR with parallel imaging factor 2 (FAIR-PI2
D ), systolic FAIR with the same acceleration (FAIR-PI2S ) and systolic FAIR with compressed sensing factor 3 (FAIR-CS3S ). The number of analyzable pixels in the myocardium, temporal signal-to-noise ratio (TSNR) and mean myocardial blood flow (MBF) were calculated for all methods. The number of analyzable pixels using FAIR-CS3S (663 ± 55) and FAIR-PI2S (671 ± 58) was significantly higher than for FAIR-PI2D (507 ± 82; P = .001 for both), while there was no significant difference between FAIR-PI2S and FAIR-CS3S . The mean TSNR of the midventricular slice for FAIR-PI2D was 11.4 ± 3.9, similar to that of FAIR-CS3S, which was 11.0 ± 3.3, both considerably higher than for FAIR-PI2S, which was 8.4 ± 3.1 (P < .05 for both). Mean MBF was similar for all three methods. The use of compressed sensing accelerated systolic FAIR benefits from an increased number of analyzable myocardial pixels compared with diastolic FAIR without suffering from a TSNR penalty, unlike systolic FAIR with parallel imaging acceleration., (© 2020 The Authors. NMR in Biomedicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)- Published
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28. Inflow artifact reduction using an adaptive flip-angle navigator restore pulse for late gadolinium enhancement of the left atrium.
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Henningsson M and Carlhäll CJ
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- Contrast Media, Heart Atria diagnostic imaging, Humans, Image Enhancement, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Artifacts, Gadolinium
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Purpose: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) of the left atrium is susceptible to artifacts arising from the right pulmonary veins, caused by inflowing blood tagged by the navigator restore pulse. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new method to reduce the inflow artifact using an adaptive flip-angle restore pulse., Methods: A low-restore angle reduces the inflow artifact but may lead to a poor navigator SNR. The proposed approach aims to determine the patient-specific restore angle, which optimizes the trade-off between inflow artifacts and navigator SNR. Three-dimensional LGE with adaptive navigator restore (3D LGE
A ) was implemented by incrementing the flip angle of the restore pulse from a starting value of 0°, based on the navigator normalized cross-correlation. Magnetic resonance imaging experiments were performed on a 1.5T scanner. The value of 3D LGEA was compared with 3D LGE with a constant 180° restore pulse (3D LGE180 ) in 22 patients with heart diseases. The values of 3D LGEA and 3D LGE180 were compared in terms of pulmonary vein blood signal relative to reference blood in the descending aorta (PVrel ) and visual scoring to determine level of motion artifacts using a 4-point scale (1 = severe artifacts; 4 = no artifacts)., Results: The value of PVrel was significantly lower for 3D LGEA than for 3D LGE180 (1.16 ± 0.23 vs. 1.59 ± 0.29, P < .001). Furthermore, visual scoring of the motion artifacts yielded no difference (P = .78)., Conclusion: Adaptively adjusting the navigator restore flip angle based on the navigator normalized cross-correlation reduces the 3D LGE inflow artifact without affecting image quality or the scan time., (© 2020 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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29. Feasibility of free-breathing quantitative myocardial perfusion using multi-echo Dixon magnetic resonance imaging.
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Scannell CM, Correia T, Villa ADM, Schneider T, Lee J, Breeuwer M, Chiribiri A, and Henningsson M
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- Feasibility Studies, Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Respiration, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Myocardial Ischemia diagnostic imaging, Myocardial Perfusion Imaging methods
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Dynamic contrast-enhanced quantitative first-pass perfusion using magnetic resonance imaging enables non-invasive objective assessment of myocardial ischemia without ionizing radiation. However, quantification of perfusion is challenging due to the non-linearity between the magnetic resonance signal intensity and contrast agent concentration. Furthermore, respiratory motion during data acquisition precludes quantification of perfusion. While motion correction techniques have been proposed, they have been hampered by the challenge of accounting for dramatic contrast changes during the bolus and long execution times. In this work we investigate the use of a novel free-breathing multi-echo Dixon technique for quantitative myocardial perfusion. The Dixon fat images, unaffected by the dynamic contrast-enhancement, are used to efficiently estimate rigid-body respiratory motion and the computed transformations are applied to the corresponding diagnostic water images. This is followed by a second non-linear correction step using the Dixon water images to remove residual motion. The proposed Dixon motion correction technique was compared to the state-of-the-art technique (spatiotemporal based registration). We demonstrate that the proposed method performs comparably to the state-of-the-art but is significantly faster to execute. Furthermore, the proposed technique can be used to correct for the decay of signal due to T2* effects to improve quantification and additionally, yields fat-free diagnostic images.
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30. Quantification of epicardial fat using 3D cine Dixon MRI.
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Henningsson M, Brundin M, Scheffel T, Edin C, Viola F, and Carlhäll CJ
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- Adult, Aged, Female, Humans, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Male, Middle Aged, Observer Variation, Proof of Concept Study, Adipose Tissue diagnostic imaging, Cardiovascular Diseases diagnostic imaging, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Pericardium diagnostic imaging
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Background: There is an increased interest in quantifying and characterizing epicardial fat which has been linked to various cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation. Recently, three-dimensional single-phase Dixon techniques have been used to depict the heart and to quantify the surrounding fat. The purpose of this study was to investigate the merits of a new high-resolution cine 3D Dixon technique for quantification of epicardial adipose tissue and compare it to single-phase 3D Dixon in patients with cardiovascular disease., Methods: Fifteen patients referred for clinical CMR examination of known or suspected heart disease were scanned on a 1.5 T scanner using single-phase Dixon and cine Dixon. Epicardial fat was segmented by three readers and intra- and inter-observer variability was calculated per slice. Cine Dixon segmentation was performed in the same cardiac phase as single-phase Dixon. Subjective image quality assessment of water and fat images were performed by three readers using a 4-point Likert scale (1 = severe; 2 = significant; 3 = mild; 4 = no blurring of cardiac structures)., Results: Intra-observer variability was excellent for cine Dixon images (ICC = 0.96), and higher than single-phase Dixon (ICC = 0.92). Inter-observer variability was good for cine Dixon (ICC = 0.76) and moderate for single-phase Dixon (ICC = 0.63). The intra-observer measurement error (mean ± standard deviation) per slice for cine was - 0.02 ± 0.51 ml (- 0.08 ± 0.4%), and for single-phase 0.39 ± 0.72 ml (0.18 ± 0.41%). Inter-observer measurement error for cine was 0.46 ± 0.98 ml (0.11 ± 0.46%) and for single-phase 0.42 ± 1.53 ml (0.17 ± 0.47%). Visual scoring of the water image yielded median of 2 (interquartile range = [Q3-Q1] 2-2) for cine and median of 3 (interquartile range = 3-2) for single-phase (P < 0.05) while no significant difference was found for the fat images, both techniques yielding a median of 3 and interquartile range of 3-2., Conclusion: Cine Dixon can be used to quantify epicardial fat with lower intra- and inter-observer variability compared to standard single-phase Dixon. The time-resolved information provided by the cine acquisition appears to support the delineation of the epicardial adipose tissue depot.
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31. Faster 3D saturation-recovery based myocardial T1 mapping using a reduced number of saturation points and denoising.
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Nordio G, Bustin A, Odille F, Schneider T, Henningsson M, Prieto C, and Botnar RM
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- Humans, Imaging, Three-Dimensional economics, Imaging, Three-Dimensional instrumentation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging economics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging instrumentation, Phantoms, Imaging, Retrospective Studies, Cardiovascular Diseases diagnostic imaging, Heart diagnostic imaging, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
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Purpose: To accelerate the acquisition of free-breathing 3D saturation-recovery-based (SASHA) myocardial T1 mapping by acquiring fewer saturation points in combination with a post-processing 3D denoising technique to maintain high accuracy and precision., Methods: 3D SASHA T1 mapping acquires nine T1-weighted images along the saturation recovery curve, resulting in long acquisition times. In this work, we propose to accelerate conventional cardiac T1 mapping by reducing the number of saturation points. High T1 accuracy and low standard deviation (as a surrogate for precision) is maintained by applying a 3D denoising technique to the T1-weighted images prior to pixel-wise T1 fitting. The proposed approach was evaluated on a T1 phantom and 20 healthy subjects, by varying the number of T1-weighted images acquired between three and nine, both prospectively and retrospectively. Following the results from the healthy subjects, three patients with suspected cardiovascular disease were acquired using five T1-weighted images. T1 accuracy and precision was determined for all the acquisitions before and after denoising., Results: In the T1 phantom, no statistical difference was found in terms of accuracy and precision for the different number of T1-weighted images before or after denoising (P = 0.99 and P = 0.99 for accuracy, P = 0.64 and P = 0.42 for precision, respectively). In vivo, both prospectively and retrospectively, the precision improved considerably with the number of T1-weighted images employed before denoising (P<0.05) but was independent on the number of T1-weighted images after denoising., Conclusion: We demonstrate the feasibility of accelerating 3D SASHA T1 mapping by reducing the number of acquired T1-weighted images in combination with an efficient 3D denoising, without affecting accuracy and precision of T1 values., Competing Interests: Philips Healthcare provided support in the form of salaries for author T.S. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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32. Whole-heart T 1 mapping using a 2D fat image navigator for respiratory motion compensation.
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Nordio G, Schneider T, Cruz G, Correia T, Bustin A, Prieto C, Botnar RM, and Henningsson M
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- Adult, Algorithms, Breath Holding, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Male, Myocardium, Phantoms, Imaging, Reproducibility of Results, Adipose Tissue diagnostic imaging, Heart diagnostic imaging, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Respiration
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Purpose: To combine a 3D saturation-recovery-based myocardial T
1 mapping (3D SASHA) sequence with a 2D image navigator with fat excitation (fat-iNAV) to allow 3D T1 maps with 100% respiratory scan efficiency and predictable scan time., Methods: Data from T1 phantom and 10 subjects were acquired at 1.5T. For respiratory motion compensation, a 2D fat-iNAV was acquired before each 3D SASHA k-space segment to correct for 2D translational motion in a beat-to-beat fashion. The effect of the fat-iNAV on the 3D SASHA T1 estimation was evaluated on the T1 phantom. For 3 representative subjects, the proposed free-breathing 3D SASHA with fat-iNAV was compared to the original implementation with the diaphragmatic navigator. The 3D SASHA with fat-iNAV was compared to the breath-hold 2D SASHA sequence in terms of accuracy and precision., Results: In the phantom study, the Bland-Altman plot shows that the 2D fat-iNAVs does not affect the T1 quantification of the 3D SASHA acquisition (0 ± 12.5 ms). For the in vivo study, the 2D fat-iNAV permits to estimate the respiratory motion of the heart, while allowing for 100% scan efficiency, improving the precision of the T1 measurement compared to non-motion-corrected 3D SASHA. However, the image quality achieved with the proposed 3D SASHA with fat-iNAV is lower compared to the original implementation, with reduced delineation of the myocardial borders and papillary muscles., Conclusions: We demonstrate the feasibility to combine the 3D SASHA T1 mapping imaging sequence with a 2D fat-iNAV for respiratory motion compensation, allowing 100% respiratory scan efficiency and predictable scan time., (© 2019 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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33. Mechanically Powered Motion Imaging Phantoms: Proof of Concept.
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Gomez A, King AP, Schnabel JA, Schmitz C, Henningsson M, Housden J, Noh Y, Zimmer VA, Clough JR, Oksuz I, and Toussaint N
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- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phantoms, Imaging, Motion
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Motion imaging phantoms are expensive, bulky and difficult to transport and set-up. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a simple approach to the design of multi-modality motion imaging phantoms that use mechanically stored energy to produce motion.We propose two phantom designs that use mainsprings and elastic bands to store energy. A rectangular piece was attached to an axle at the end of the transmission chain of each phantom, and underwent a rotary motion upon release of the mechanical motor. The phantoms were imaged with MRI and US, and the image sequences were embedded in a 1D non linear manifold (Laplacian Eigenmap) and the spectrogram of the embedding was used to derive the angular velocity over time. The derived velocities were consistent and reproducible within a small error. The proposed motion phantom concept showed great potential for the construction of simple and affordable motion phantoms.
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34. 3D SASHA myocardial T1 mapping with high accuracy and improved precision.
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Nordio G, Bustin A, Henningsson M, Rashid I, Chiribiri A, Ismail T, Odille F, Prieto C, and Botnar RM
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- Cardiac Imaging Techniques statistics & numerical data, Feasibility Studies, Healthy Volunteers, Humans, Image Enhancement methods, Imaging, Three-Dimensional statistics & numerical data, Magnetic Resonance Imaging statistics & numerical data, Phantoms, Imaging, Reproducibility of Results, Cardiac Imaging Techniques methods, Heart diagnostic imaging, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
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Purpose: To improve the precision of a free-breathing 3D saturation-recovery-based myocardial T1 mapping sequence using a post-processing 3D denoising technique., Methods: A T1 phantom and 15 healthy subjects were scanned on a 1.5 T MRI scanner using 3D saturation-recovery single-shot acquisition (SASHA) for myocardial T1 mapping. A 3D denoising technique was applied to the native T1-weighted images before pixel-wise T1 fitting. The denoising technique imposes edge-preserving regularity and exploits the co-occurrence of 3D spatial gradients in the native T1-weighted images by incorporating a multi-contrast Beltrami regularization. Additionally, 2D modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) acquisitions were performed for comparison purposes. Accuracy and precision were measured in the myocardial septum of 2D MOLLI and 3D SASHA T1 maps and then compared. Furthermore, the accuracy and precision of the proposed approach were evaluated in a standardized phantom in comparison to an inversion-recovery spin-echo sequence (IRSE)., Results: For the phantom study, Bland-Altman plots showed good agreement in terms of accuracy between IRSE and 3D SASHA, both on non-denoised and denoised T1 maps (mean difference -1.4 ± 18.9 ms and -4.4 ± 21.2 ms, respectively), while 2D MOLLI generally underestimated the T1 values (69.4 ± 48.4 ms). For the in vivo study, there was a statistical difference between the precision measured on 2D MOLLI and on non-denoised 3D SASHA T1 maps (P = 0.005), while there was no statistical difference after denoising (P = 0.95)., Conclusion: The precision of 3D SASHA myocardial T1 mapping was substantially improved using a 3D Beltrami regularization based denoising technique and was similar to that of 2D MOLLI T1 mapping, while preserving the higher accuracy and whole-heart coverage of 3D SASHA.
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35. Correction to: 3D SASHA myocardial T1 mapping with high accuracy and improved precision.
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Nordio G, Bustin A, Henningsson M, Rashid I, Chiribiri A, Ismail T, Odille F, Prieto C, and Botnar RM
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The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The presentation of Equation was incorrect. The corrected equation is given below.
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36. Visualization of coronary arteries in paediatric patients using whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography: comparison of image-navigation and the standard approach for respiratory motion compensation.
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Velasco Forte MN, Valverde I, Prabhu N, Correia T, Narayan SA, Bell A, Mathur S, Razavi R, Hussain T, Pushparajah K, and Henningsson M
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- Adolescent, Artifacts, Child, Child, Preschool, Contrast Media administration & dosage, Coronary Vessels physiopathology, Female, Heart Defects, Congenital physiopathology, Humans, Infant, Male, Meglumine administration & dosage, Organometallic Compounds administration & dosage, Predictive Value of Tests, Reproducibility of Results, Time Factors, Workflow, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Respiration
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Aims: To investigate the use of respiratory motion compensation using image-based navigation (iNAV) with constant respiratory efficiency using single end-expiratory thresholding (CRUISE) for coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA), and compare it to the conventional diaphragmatic navigator (dNAV) in paediatric patients with congenital or suspected heart disease., Methods: iNAV allowed direct tracking of the respiratory heart motion and was generated using balanced steady state free precession startup echoes. Respiratory gating was achieved using CRUISE with a fixed 50% efficiency. Whole-heart CMRA was acquired with 1.3 mm isotropic resolution. For comparison, CMRA with identical imaging parameters were acquired using dNAV. Scan time, visualization of coronary artery origins and mid-course, imaging quality and sharpness was compared between the two sequences., Results: Forty patients (13 females; median weight: 44 kg; median age: 12.6, range: 3 months-17 years) were enrolled. 25 scans were performed in awake patients. A contrast agent was used in 22 patients. The scan time was significantly reduced using iNAV for awake patients (iNAV 7:48 ± 1:26 vs dNAV 9:48 ± 3:11, P = 0.01) but not for patients under general anaesthesia (iNAV = 6:55 ± 1:50 versus dNAV = 6:32 ± 2:16; P = 0.32). In 98% of the cases, iNAV image quality had an equal or higher score than dNAV. The visual score analysis showed a clear difference, favouring iNAV (P = 0.002). The right coronary artery and the left anterior descending vessel sharpness was significantly improved (iNAV: 56.8% ± 10.1% vs dNAV: 53.7% ± 9.9%, P < 0.002 and iNAV: 55.8% ± 8.6% vs dNAV: 53% ± 9.2%, P = 0.001, respectively)., Conclusion: iNAV allows for a higher success-rate and clearer depiction of the mid-course of coronary arteries in paediatric patients. Its acquisition time is shorter in awake patients and image quality score is equal or superior to the conventional method in most cases.
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37. Feasibility of 3D black-blood variable refocusing angle fast spin echo cardiovascular magnetic resonance for visualization of the whole heart and great vessels in congenital heart disease.
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Henningsson M, Zahr RA, Dyer A, Greil GF, Burkhardt B, Tandon A, and Hussain T
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- Adolescent, Adult, Case-Control Studies, Child, Coronary Circulation, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Coronary Vessels physiopathology, Electrocardiography, Feasibility Studies, Female, Heart physiopathology, Heart Defects, Congenital physiopathology, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Pulmonary Circulation, Pulmonary Veins diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Veins physiopathology, Young Adult, Cardiac-Gated Imaging Techniques, Heart diagnostic imaging, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Angiography methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
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Background: Volumetric black-blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been hampered by long scan times and flow sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of black-blood, electrocardiogram (ECG)-triggered and respiratory-navigated 3D fast spin echo (3D FSE) for the visualization of the whole heart and great vessels., Methods: The implemented 3D FSE technique used slice-selective excitation and non-selective refocusing pulses with variable flip angles to achieve constant echo signal for tissue with T1 (880 ms) and T2 (40 ms) similar to the vessel wall. Ten healthy subjects and 21 patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) underwent 3D FSE and conventional 3D balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP). The sequences were compared in terms of ability to perform segmental assessment, local signal-to-noise ratio (SNR
l ) and local contrast-to-noise ratio (CNRl )., Results: In both healthy subjects and patients with CHD, 3D FSE showed superior pulmonary vein but inferior coronary artery origin visualisation compared to 3D bSFFP. However, in patients with CHD the combination of 3D bSSFP and 3D FSE whole-heart imaging improves the success rate of cardiac morphological diagnosis to 100% compared to either technique in isolation (3D FSE, 23.8% success rate, 3D bSSFP, 5% success rate). In the healthy subjects SNRl for 3D bSSFP was greater than for 3D FSE (30.1 ± 7.3 vs 20.9 ± 5.3; P = 0.002) whereas the CNRl was comparable (17.3 ± 5.6 vs 17.4 ± 4.9; P = 0.91) between the two scans., Conclusions: The feasibility of 3D FSE for whole-heart black-blood CMR imaging has been demonstrated. Due to their high success rate for segmental assessment, the combination of 3D bSSFP and 3D FSE may be an attractive alternative to gadolinium contrast enhanced morphological CMR in patients with CHD.- Published
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38. Simultaneous Assessment of Cardiac Inflammation and Extracellular Matrix Remodeling after Myocardial Infarction.
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Ramos IT, Henningsson M, Nezafat M, Lavin B, Lorrio S, Gebhardt P, Protti A, Eykyn TR, Andia ME, Flögel U, Phinikaridou A, Shah AM, and Botnar RM
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- Animals, Biomarkers metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Immunohistochemistry, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Myocardial Infarction diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction metabolism, Myocarditis diagnosis, Myocarditis etiology, Myocardium pathology, Extracellular Matrix Proteins metabolism, Myocardial Infarction complications, Myocarditis metabolism, Myocardium metabolism
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Background: Optimal healing of the myocardium following myocardial infarction (MI) requires a suitable degree of inflammation and its timely resolution, together with a well-orchestrated deposition and degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins., Methods and Results: MI and SHAM-operated animals were imaged at 3,7,14 and 21 days with 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a
19 F/1 H surface coil. Mice were injected with19 F-perfluorocarbon (PFC) nanoparticles to study inflammatory cell recruitment, and with a gadolinium-based elastin-binding contrast agent (Gd-ESMA) to evaluate elastin content.19 F MRI signal co-localized with infarction areas, as confirmed by late-gadolinium enhancement, and was highest 7days post-MI, correlating with macrophage content (MAC-3 immunohistochemistry) (ρ=0.89, P<0.0001 ).19 F quantification with in vivo (MRI) and ex vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy correlated linearly (ρ=0.58, P=0.020 ). T1 mapping after Gd-ESMA injection showed increased relaxation rate (R1 ) in the infarcted regions and was significantly higher at 21days compared with 7days post-MI (R1 [s-1 ]:21days=2.8 [IQR,2.69-3.30] vs 7days=2.3 [IQR,2.12-2.5], P<0.05 ), which agreed with an increased tropoelastin content (ρ=0.89, P<0.0001 ). The predictive value of each contrast agent for beneficial remodeling was evaluated in a longitudinal proof-of-principle study. Neither R1 nor19 F at day 7 were significant predictors for beneficial remodeling ( P=0.68 ; P=0.062 ). However, the combination of both measurements (R1 <2.34Hz and 0.55≤19 F≤1.85) resulted in an odds ratio of 30.0 (CI95%:1.41-638.15; P=0.029 ) for favorable post-MI remodeling., Conclusions: Multinuclear1 H/19 F MRI allows the simultaneous assessment of inflammation and elastin remodeling in a murine MI model. The interplay of these biological processes affects cardiac outcome and may have potential for improved diagnosis and personalized treatment.- Published
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39. Dual-phase whole-heart imaging using image navigation in congenital heart disease.
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Moyé DM, Hussain T, Botnar RM, Tandon A, Greil GF, Dyer AK, and Henningsson M
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- Adolescent, Adult, Case-Control Studies, Child, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Male, Random Allocation, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine methods
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Background: Dual-phase 3-dimensional whole-heart acquisition allows simultaneous imaging during systole and diastole. Respiratory navigator gating and tracking of the diaphragm is used with limited accuracy. Prolonged scan time is common, and navigation often fails in patients with erratic breathing. Image-navigation (iNAV) tracks movement of the heart itself and is feasible in single phase whole heart imaging. To evaluate its diagnostic ability in congenital heart disease, we sought to apply iNAV to dual-phase sequencing., Methods: Healthy volunteers and patients with congenital heart disease underwent dual-phase imaging using the conventional diaphragmatic-navigation (dNAV) and iNAV. Acquisition time was recorded and image quality assessed. Sharpness and length of the right coronary (RCA), left anterior descending (LAD), and circumflex (LCx) arteries were measured in both cardiac phases for both approaches. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed in a blinded and randomized fashion., Results: In volunteers, there was no significant difference in vessel sharpness between approaches (p > 0.05). In patients, analysis showed equal vessel sharpness for LAD and RCA (p > 0.05). LCx sharpness was greater with dNAV (p < 0.05). Visualized length with iNAV was 0.5 ± 0.4 cm greater than that with dNAV for LCx in diastole (p < 0.05), 1.0 ± 0.3 cm greater than dNAV for LAD in diastole (p < 0.05), and 0.8 ± 0.7 cm greater than dNAV for RCA in systole (p < 0.05). Qualitative scores were similar between modalities (p = 0.71). Mean iNAV scan time was 5:18 ± 2:12 min shorter than mean dNAV scan time in volunteers (p = 0.0001) and 3:16 ± 1:12 min shorter in patients (p = 0.0001)., Conclusions: Image quality of iNAV and dNAV was similar with better distal vessel visualization with iNAV. iNAV acquisition time was significantly shorter. Complete cardiac diagnosis was achieved. Shortened acquisition time will improve clinical applicability and patient comfort.
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40. Improved coronary magnetic resonance angiography using gadobenate dimeglumine in pediatric congenital heart disease.
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Silva Vieira M, Henningsson M, Dedieu N, Vassiliou VS, Bell A, Mathur S, Pushparajah K, Figueroa CA, Hussain T, Botnar R, and Greil GF
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- Child, Child, Preschool, Coronary Vessels pathology, Female, Heart Defects, Congenital pathology, Humans, Male, Prospective Studies, Signal-To-Noise Ratio, Contrast Media, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Image Enhancement methods, Magnetic Resonance Angiography methods, Meglumine analogs & derivatives, Organometallic Compounds
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Background: CMRA in pediatrics remains challenging due to the smaller vessel size, high heart rates (HR), potential image degradation caused by limited patient cooperation and long acquisition times. High-relaxivity contrast agents have been shown to improve coronary imaging in adults, but limited data is available in children. We sought to investigate whether gadobenate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA) together with self-navigated inversion-prepared coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) sequence design improves coronary image quality in pediatric patients., Methods: Forty consecutive patients (mean age 6±2.8years; 73% males) were prospectively recruited for a 1.5-T MRI study under general anesthesia. Two electrocardiographic-triggered free breathing steady-state free precession (SSFP) angiography sequences (A and B) with isotropic spatial resolution (1.3mm
3 ) were acquired using a recently developed image-based self-navigation technique. Sequence A was acquired prior to contrast administration using T2 magnetization preparation (T2prep). Sequence B was acquired 5-8min after a bolus of Gd-BOPTA with the T2prep replaced by an inversion recovery (IR) pulse to null the signal from the myocardium. Scan time, signal-to noise and contrast-to-noise ratios (SNR and CNR), vessel wall sharpness (VWS) and qualitative visual score for each sequence were compared., Results: Scan time was similar for both sequences (5.3±1.8 vs 5.2±1.5min, p=.532) and average heart rate (78±14.7 vs 78±14.5bpm, p=.443) remained constant throughout both acquisitions. Sequence B resulted in higher SNR (12.6±4.4 vs 31.1±7.4, p<.001) and CNR (9.0±1.8 vs 13.5±3.7, p<.001) and provided improved coronary visualization in all coronary territories (VWS A=0.53±0.07 vs B=0.56±0.07, p=.001; and visual scoring A=3.8±0.59 vs B=4.1±0.53, p<.001). The number of non-diagnostic coronary segments was lower for sequence B [A=42 (13.1%) segments vs B=33 (10.3%) segments; p=.002], and contrary to the pre-contrast sequence, never involved a proximal segment. These results were independent of the patients' age, body surface area and HR., Conclusions: The use of Gd-BOPTA with a 3D IR SSFP CMRA sequence results in improved coronary visualization in small infants and young children with high HR within a clinically acceptable scan time., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
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41. Interventional Correction of Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage: Procedural Planning Using 3D Printed Models.
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Velasco Forte MN, Byrne N, Valverde I, Gomez Ciriza G, Hermuzi A, Prachasilchai P, Mainzer G, Pushparajah K, Henningsson M, Hussain T, Qureshi S, and Rosenthal E
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- Cardiac Catheterization instrumentation, Coronary Angiography, Echocardiography, Doppler, Color, Echocardiography, Transesophageal, Heart Septal Defects, Atrial diagnostic imaging, Heart Septal Defects, Atrial physiopathology, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prosthesis Design, Pulmonary Veins diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Veins physiopathology, Stents, Treatment Outcome, Cardiac Catheterization methods, Heart Septal Defects, Atrial therapy, Models, Anatomic, Models, Cardiovascular, Patient-Specific Modeling, Printing, Three-Dimensional, Pulmonary Veins abnormalities
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42. Coronary MR angiography using image-based respiratory motion compensation with inline correction and fixed gating efficiency.
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Henningsson M, Smink J, van Ensbergen G, and Botnar R
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- Adult, Algorithms, Arteries diagnostic imaging, Artifacts, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Female, Healthy Volunteers, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Male, Motion, Respiration, Coronary Angiography, Heart diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Angiography
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new inline motion compensation approach called image-based navigation with Constant Respiratory efficiency UsIng Single End-expiratory threshold (iNAV-CRUISE) for coronary MR angiography (CMRA)., Methods: The CRUISE gating technique was combined with iNAV motion correction and implemented inline for motion-compensated CMRA on a 1.5 Tesla scanner. The approach was compared to conventional diaphragmatic navigator gating (dNAVG) in 10 healthy subjects. The CMRA images were compared for vessel sharpness and visual score of the right coronary artery (RCA), left anterior descending artery (LAD), left circumflex, and scan time., Results: The scan time was similar between the methods (dNAV
G : 6:32 ± 1:09 vs. iNAV-CRUISE: 6:58 ± 0:17, P = not significant). However, the vessel sharpness of the RCA (dNAVG : 60.2 ± 10.1 vs. iNAV-CRUISE: 71.8 ± 8.9, P = 0.001) and LAD (dNAVG : 58.0 ± 8.0 vs. iNAV-CRUISE: 67.4 ± 7.1, P = 0.008) were significantly improved using iNAV-CRUISE. The visual score of the RCA was higher using iNAV-CRUISE compared to dNAVG (dNAVG : 3,4,3 vs. iNAV-CRUISE: 4,4,3, P < 0.01)., Conclusion: The iNAV-CRUISE approach out-performs the conventional respiratory motion compensation technique in healthy subjects. Although scan time was comparable, the image quality was improved using iNAV-CRUISE. Magn Reson Med 79:416-422, 2018. © 2017 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., (© 2017 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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43. 'Image-navigated 3-dimensional late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: feasibility and initial clinical results'.
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Bratis K, Henningsson M, Grigoratos C, Dell'Omodarme M, Chasapides K, Botnar R, and Nagel E
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- Feasibility Studies, Heart Diseases pathology, Heart Diseases physiopathology, Humans, Necrosis, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Reproducibility of Results, Signal-To-Noise Ratio, Contrast Media administration & dosage, Heart Diseases diagnostic imaging, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine methods, Myocardium pathology, Organometallic Compounds administration & dosage
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Background: Image-navigated 3-dimensional late gadolinium enhancement (iNAV-3D LGE) is an advanced imaging technique that allows for direct respiratory motion correction of the heart. Its feasibility in a routine clinical setting has not been validated., Methods: Twenty-three consecutive patients referred for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) examination including late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging were prospectively enrolled. Image-navigated free-breathing 3-dimensional (3D) T1-weighted gradient-echo LGE and two-dimensional (2D LGE) images were acquired in random order on a 1.5 T CMR system. Images were assessed for global, segmental LGE detection and transmural extent. Objective image quality including signal-to-noise (SNR), contrast-to-noise (CNR) and myocardial/blood sharpness were performed., Results: Interpretable images were obtained in all 2D-LGE and in 22/23 iNAV-3D LGE exams, resulting in a total of 22 datasets and 352 segments. LGE was detected in 5 patients with ischemic pattern, in 7 with non-ischemic pattern, while it was absent in 10 cases. There was an excellent agreement between 2D and 3D data sets with regard to global, segmental LGE detection and transmurality. Blood-myocardium sharpness measurements were also comparable between the two techniques. SNR
blood and CNRblood-myo was significantly higher for 2D LGE (P < 0.001, respectively), while SNRmyo was not statistically significant between 2D LGE and iNAV-3D LGE., Conclusion: Diagnostic performance of iNAV-3D LGE was comparable to 2D LGE in a prospective clinical setting. SNRblood and CNRblood-myo was significantly lower in the iNAV-3D LGE group.- Published
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44. Improved segmented modified Look-Locker inversion recovery T1 mapping sequence in mice.
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Nezafat M, Ramos IT, Henningsson M, Protti A, Basha T, and Botnar RM
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- Animals, Mice, Phantoms, Imaging, Contrast Media pharmacology, Gadolinium pharmacology, Heart Rate, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Myocardial Infarction diagnostic imaging, Myocardial Infarction physiopathology
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Object: To develop and evaluate a 2D modified Look-Locker (MOLLI) for high-resolution T1 mapping in mice using a 3T MRI scanner., Materials and Methods: To allow high-resolution T1 mapping in mice at high heart rates a multi-shot ECG-triggered 2D MOLLI sequence was developed. In the proposed T1 mapping sequence the optimal number of sampling points and pause cardiac cycles following an initial adiabatic inversion pulse was investigated in a phantom. Seven native control and eight mice, 3 days post myocardial infarction (MI) after administration of gadolinium were scanned. Two experienced readers graded the visual T1 map quality., Results: In T1 phantoms, there were no significant differences (<0.4% error) between 12, 15 and 20 pause cardiac cycles (p = 0.1, 0.2 and 0.6 respectively) for 8 acquisition cardiac cycles for 600bpm in comparison to the conventional inversion recovery spin echo T1 mapping sequence for short T1's (<600 ms). Subsequently, all in-vivo scans were performed with 8 data acquisitions and 12 pause cardiac cycles to minimize scan time. The mean native T1 value of myocardium in control animal was 820.5±52 ms. The post-contrast T1 measured 3 days after MI in scar was 264±59 ms and in healthy myocardium was 512±62 ms. The Bland-Altman analysis revealed mean difference of only -1.06% of infarct size percentage between T1 maps and LGE., Conclusions: A multi-shot 2D MOLLI sequence has been presented that allows reliable measurement of high spatial resolution T1 maps in mice for heart rates up to 600bpm.
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45. Diagnostic performance of image navigated coronary CMR angiography in patients with coronary artery disease.
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Henningsson M, Shome J, Bratis K, Vieira MS, Nagel E, and Botnar RM
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- Adult, Aged, Computed Tomography Angiography, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Male, Middle Aged, Predictive Value of Tests, Reproducibility of Results, Severity of Illness Index, Coronary Angiography methods, Coronary Artery Disease diagnostic imaging, Coronary Stenosis diagnostic imaging, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
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Background: The use of coronary MR angiography (CMRA) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains limited due to the long scan times, unpredictable and often non-diagnostic image quality secondary to respiratory motion artifacts. The purpose of this study was to evaluate CMRA with image-based respiratory navigation (iNAV CMRA) and compare it to gold standard invasive x-ray coronary angiography in patients with CAD., Methods: Consecutive patients referred for CMR assessment were included to undergo iNAV CMRA on a 1.5 T scanner. Coronary vessel sharpness and a visual score were assigned to the coronary arteries. A diagnostic reading was performed on the iNAV CMRA data, where a lumen narrowing >50% was considered diseased. This was compared to invasive x-ray findings., Results: Image-navigated CMRA was performed in 31 patients (77% male, 56 ± 14 years). The iNAV CMRA scan time was 7 min:21 s ± 0 min:28 s. Out of a possible 279 coronary segments, 26 segments were excluded from analysis due to stents or diameter less than 1.5 mm, resulting in a total of 253 coronary segments. Diagnostic image quality was obtained for 98% of proximal coronary segments, 94% of middle segments, and 91% of distal coronary segments. The sensitivity and specificity was 86% and 83% per patient, 80% and 92% per vessel and 73% and 95% per segment., Conclusion: In this study, iNAV CMRA offered a very good diagnostic performance when compared against invasive x-ray angiography. Due to the short and predictable scan time it can add clinical value as a part of a comprehensive CAD assessment protocol.
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46. Novel MRI Technique Enables Non-Invasive Measurement of Atrial Wall Thickness.
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Varela M, Morgan R, Theron A, Dillon-Murphy D, Chubb H, Whitaker J, Henningsson M, Aljabar P, Schaeffter T, Kolbitsch C, and Aslanidi OV
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- Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Conduction System, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Heart Atria
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Knowledge of atrial wall thickness (AWT) has the potential to provide important information for patient stratification and the planning of interventions in atrial arrhythmias. To date, information about AWT has only been acquired in post-mortem or poor-contrast computed tomography (CT) studies, providing limited coverage and highly variable estimates of AWT. We present a novel contrast agent-free MRI sequence for imaging AWT and use it to create personalized AWT maps and a biatrial atlas. A novel black-blood phase-sensitive inversion recovery protocol was used to image ten volunteers and, as proof of concept, two atrial fibrillation patients. Both atria were manually segmented to create subject-specific AWT maps using an average of nearest neighbors approach. These were then registered non-linearly to generate an AWT atlas. AWT was 2.4 ± 0.7 and 2.7 ± 0.7 mm in the left and right atria, respectively, in good agreement with post-mortem and CT data, where available. AWT was 2.6 ± 0.7 mm in the left atrium of a patient without structural heart disease, similar to that of volunteers. In a patient with structural heart disease, the AWT was increased to 3.1 ± 1.3 mm. We successfully designed an MRI protocol to non-invasively measure AWT and create the first whole-atria AWT atlas. The atlas can be used as a reference to study alterations in thickness caused by atrial pathology. The protocol can be used to acquire personalized AWT maps in a clinical setting and assist in the treatment of atrial arrhythmias.
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47. 3D myocardial T 1 mapping using saturation recovery.
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Nordio G, Henningsson M, Chiribiri A, Villa ADM, Schneider T, and Botnar RM
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- Adult, Algorithms, Cardiac Imaging Techniques instrumentation, Female, Humans, Image Enhancement methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine instrumentation, Male, Models, Biological, Phantoms, Imaging, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Cardiac Imaging Techniques methods, Heart Ventricles anatomy & histology, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine methods, Respiratory-Gated Imaging Techniques methods, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Purpose: To propose a 3D quantitative high-resolution T
1 mapping technique, called 3D SASHA (saturation-recovery single-shot acquisition), which combines a saturation recovery pulse with 1D-navigator-based-respiratory motion compensation to acquire the whole volume of the heart in free breathing. The sequence was tested and validated both in a T1 phantom and in healthy subjects., Materials and Methods: The 3D SASHA method was implemented on a 1.5T scanner. A diaphragmatic navigator was used to allow free-breathing acquisition and the images were acquired with a resolution of 1.4 × 1.4 × 8 mm3 . For assessment of accuracy and precision the sequence was compared with the reference gold-standard inversion-recovery spin echo (IRSE) pulse sequence in a T1 phantom, while for the in vivo studies (10 healthy volunteers) 3D SASHA was compared with the clinically used 2D MOLLI (3-3-5) and 2D SASHA protocols., Results: There was good agreement between the T1 values measured in a T1 phantom with 3D SASHA and the reference IRSE pulse sequences (1111.6 ± 31 msec vs. 1123.6 ± 8 msec, P = 0.9947). Mean and standard deviation of the myocardial T1 values in healthy subjects measured with 2D MOLLI, 2D SASHA, and 3D SASHA sequences were 881 ± 40 msec, 1181.3 ± 32 msec, and 1153.6 ± 28 msec respectively., Conclusion: The proposed 3D SASHA sequence allows for high-resolution free-breathing whole-heart T1 -mapping with T1 values in good agreement with the 2D SASHA and improved precision., Level of Evidence: 2 Technical Efficacy: Stage 1 J. MAGN. RESON. IMAGING 2017;46:218-227., (© 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)- Published
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48. Clinical evaluation of three-dimensional late enhancement MRI.
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Bratis K, Henningsson M, Grigoratos C, Omodarme MD, Chasapides K, Botnar R, and Nagel E
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Image Enhancement methods, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Ischemia complications, Myocardial Ischemia pathology, Myocardial Stunning etiology, Myocardial Stunning pathology, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Young Adult, Algorithms, Contrast Media administration & dosage, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods, Myocardial Ischemia diagnostic imaging, Myocardial Stunning diagnostic imaging
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Purpose: To assess the diagnostic value of three-dimensional late enhancement (3D-LGE) for the detection of myocardial necrosis in a routine clinical setting. 3D-LGE has been proposed as a novel magnetic resonance (MR) technique for the accurate detection of myocardial scar in both the ventricles and atria. Its performance in clinical practice has been poorly examined., Materials and Methods: Fifty-seven patients referred for cardiac MR examination including scar imaging were prospectively enrolled. Gadolinium enhanced single breathhold 3D T1-weighted gradient-echo inversion recovery sequence and a conventional 2D-LGE sequence were performed using a 1.5 Tesla clinical MR imaging system. The presence, pattern and transmurality of LGE, diagnostic accuracy and level of diagnostic confidence as well as image quality (median quality, mean LGE signal intensity, sharpness, virtual scan time) were graded on a 4-point scale., Results: Interpretable images were obtained in 52/57 2D-LGE and in 47/57 3D high-resolution exams. LGE was detected in 10 patients with ischemic pattern, 9 with nonischemic pattern, while it was absent in 28, resulting in a total of 47 complete datasets. The detection of global and segmental LGE as well as its transmural extent were similar for both techniques (P = 0.65, P = 0.305, and P = 0.15, respectively). Image quality (median quality, LGE/ myocardial and LGE/ blood pool sharpness) was similar for both techniques (P = 0.740, P = 0.34, and P = 1.00, respectively), but LGE signal intensity was higher with 2D (P = 0.020)., Conclusion: 3D-LGE diagnostic and quality scores were comparable to 2D-LGE in a routine clinical setting. Further technical refinement is required for 3D LGE to offer a reliable alternative for high quality scar imaging., Level of Evidence: 2 Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. MAGN. RESON. IMAGING 2017;45:1675-1683., (© 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)
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49. Highly efficient nonrigid motion-corrected 3D whole-heart coronary vessel wall imaging.
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Cruz G, Atkinson D, Henningsson M, Botnar RM, and Prieto C
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- Algorithms, Endothelium, Vascular diagnostic imaging, Female, Healthy Volunteers, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Angiography methods, Male, Motion, Respiration, Respiratory-Gated Imaging Techniques methods, Coronary Vessels diagnostic imaging, Heart diagnostic imaging, Imaging, Three-Dimensional methods
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Purpose: To develop a respiratory motion correction framework to accelerate free-breathing three-dimensional (3D) whole-heart coronary lumen and coronary vessel wall MRI., Methods: We developed a 3D flow-independent approach for vessel wall imaging based on the subtraction of data with and without T2-preparation prepulses acquired interleaved with image navigators. The proposed method corrects both datasets to the same respiratory position using beat-to-beat translation and bin-to-bin nonrigid corrections, producing coregistered, motion-corrected coronary lumen and coronary vessel wall images. The proposed method was studied in 10 healthy subjects and was compared with beat-to-beat translational correction (TC) and no motion correction for the left and right coronary arteries. Additionally, the coronary lumen images were compared with a 6-mm diaphragmatic navigator gated and tracked scan., Results: No significant differences (P > 0.01) were found between the proposed method and the gated and tracked scan for coronary lumen, despite an average improvement in scan efficiency to 96% from 59%. Significant differences (P < 0.01) were found in right coronary artery vessel wall thickness, right coronary artery vessel wall sharpness, and vessel wall visual score between the proposed method and TC., Conclusion: The feasibility of a highly efficient motion correction framework for simultaneous whole-heart coronary lumen and vessel wall has been demonstrated. Magn Reson Med 77:1894-1908, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine., (© 2016 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)
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50. A clinical combined gadobutrol bolus and slow infusion protocol enabling angiography, inversion recovery whole heart, and late gadolinium enhancement imaging in a single study.
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Tandon A, James L, Henningsson M, Botnar RM, Potersnak A, Greil GF, and Hussain T
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- Heart physiopathology, Heart Defects, Congenital physiopathology, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Infusions, Intravenous, Injections, Intravenous, Predictive Value of Tests, Retrospective Studies, Time Factors, Contrast Media administration & dosage, Coronary Angiography methods, Heart diagnostic imaging, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Angiography methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine methods, Organometallic Compounds administration & dosage
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Background: The use of gadolinium contrast agents in cardiovascular magnetic resonance is well-established and serves to improve both vascular imaging as well as enable late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging for tissue characterization. Currently, gadofosveset trisodium, an intravascular contrast agent, combined with a three-dimensional inversion recovery balanced steady state free precession (3D IR bSSFP) sequence, is commonly used in pediatric cardiac imaging and yields excellent vascular imaging, but cannot be used for late gadolinium enhancement. Gadofosveset use remains limited in clinical practice, and manufacture was recently halted, thus an alternative is needed to allow 3D IR bSSFP and LGE in the same study., Methods: Here we propose a protocol to give a bolus of 0.1 mL/kg = 0.1 mmol/kg gadobutrol (GADAVIST/GADOVIST) for time-resolved magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Subsequently, 0.1 mmol/kg is diluted up to 5 or 7.5 mL with saline and then loaded into intravenous tubing connected to the patient. A 0.5 mL short bolus is infused, then a slow infusion is given at 0.02 or 0.03 mL/s. Image navigated (iNAV) 3D IR bSSFP imaging is initiated 45-60 s after the initiation of the infusion, with a total image acquisition time of ~5 min. If necessary, LGE imaging using phase sensitive inversion recovery reconstruction (PSIR) is performed at 10 min after the infusion is initiated., Results: We have successfully performed the above protocol with good image quality on 10 patients with both time-resolved MRA and 3D IR bSSFP iNAV imaging. Our initial attempts to use pencil beam respiratory navigation failed due to signal labeling in the liver by the navigator. We have also performed 2D PSIR LGE successfully, with both LGE positive and LGE negative results., Conclusion: A bolus of gadobutrol, followed later by a slow infusion, allows time-resolved MRA, 3D IR bSSFP using the iNAV navigation technique, and LGE imaging, all in a single study with a single contrast agent.
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