title: Rest period duration of the coronary arteries: implications for magnetic resonance coronary angiography.
abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography coronary imaging is susceptible to artifacts caused by motion of the heart. The presence of rest periods during the cardiac and respiratory cycles suggests that images free of motion artifacts could be acquired. In this paper, we studied the rest period (RP) duration of the coronary arteries during a cardiac contraction and a tidal respiratory cycle. We also studied whether three MR motion correction methods could be used to increase the respiratory RP duration. Free breathing x-ray coronary angiograms were acquired in ten patients. The three-dimensional (3D) structure of the coronary arteries was reconstructed from a biplane acquisition using stereo reconstruction methods. The 3D motion of the arterial model was then recovered using an automatic motion tracking algorithm. The motion field was then decomposed into separate cardiac and respiratory components using a cardiac respiratory parametric model. For the proximal-to-middle segments of the right coronary artery (RCA), a cardiac RP (<1 mm 3D displacement) of 76+/-34 ms was measured at end systole (ES), and 65+/-42 ms in mid-diastole (MD). The cardiac RP was 80+/-25 ms at ES and 112+/-42 ms at MD for the proximal 5 cm of the left coronary tree. At end expiration, the respiratory RP (in percent of the respiratory period) was 26+/-8% for the RCA and 27+/-17% for the left coronary tree. Left coronary respiratory RP (<0.5 mm 3D displacement) increased with translation (32% of the respiratory period), rigid body (51%), and affine (79%) motion correction. The RCA respiratory RP using translational (27%) and rigid body (33%) motion correction were not statistically different from each other. Measurements of the cardiac and respiratory rest periods will improve our understanding of the temporal and spatial resolution constraints for coronary imaging.
authors.affiliation: Lab of Cardiac Energetics, NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1061, USA. shechter@bme.jhu.edu
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shechter
authors.forename: Jon R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Resar
authors.forename: Elliot R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: McVeigh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009068:Movement; D012119:Respiration; D013997:Time Factors; D014965:X-Rays
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