title: [Myocardial MR tagging: analysis of regional and global myocardial function].
abstract: Myocardial MR tagging is a powerful method which allows for assessment of myocardial function and may become an important tool for clinical evaluation of cardiac dysfunction, particularly in ischemic heart disease. In addition to visual assessment it allows direct quantification of myocardial deformation and strain to measure contractility. The use of myocardial tagging has provided new insights into the (patho)physiology of regional wall motion, and several parameters have been described as being useful to identify an ischemic response of the myocardium. One challenge encountered with tagging at 1.5 T is the fading of tags at end-diastole, greatly limiting the evaluation of myocardial function during diastole. Due to longer T(1) relaxation times of the myocardium, tagging at 3 T has shown to have a higher CNR(Tag) and better tag persistence when compared to current clinical gradient-echo tagging protocols at 1.5 T. As a consequence, tagging at higher field strengths may be well suited for the characterization of the diastolic portion of the cardiac cycle in future applications.
authors.affiliation: Abt. für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Radiologische Klinik, Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 Tübingen. ulrich.kramer@med.uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hennemuth
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fenchel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000379:methods*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis*
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