The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Cine Phase Contrast MRI on Wall Shear Stress and Oscillatory Shear Index Assessment.
BACKGROUND
Wall shear stress (WSS) and oscillatory shear index (OSI) are associated with atherosclerotic disease. Both parameters are derived from blood velocities, which can be measured with phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI). Limitations in spatiotemporal resolution of PC-MRI are known to affect these measurements. Our aim was to investigate the effect of spatiotemporal resolution using a carotid artery phantom.


METHODS
A carotid artery phantom was connected to a flow set-up supplying pulsatile flow. MRI measurement planes were placed at the common carotid artery (CCA) and internal carotid artery (ICA). Two-dimensional PC-MRI measurements were performed with thirty different spatiotemporal resolution settings. The MRI flow measurement was validated with ultrasound probe measurements. Mean flow, peak flow, flow waveform, WSS and OSI were compared for these spatiotemporal resolutions using regression analysis. The slopes of the regression lines were reported in %/mm and %/100ms. The distribution of low and high WSS and OSI was compared between different spatiotemporal resolutions.


RESULTS
The mean PC-MRI CCA flow (2.5±0.2mL/s) agreed with the ultrasound probe measurements (2.7±0.02mL/s). Mean flow (mL/s) depended only on spatial resolution (CCA:-13%/mm, ICA:-49%/mm). Peak flow (mL/s) depended on both spatial (CCA:-13%/mm, ICA:-17%/mm) and temporal resolution (CCA:-19%/100ms, ICA:-24%/100ms). Mean WSS (Pa) was in inverse relationship only with spatial resolution (CCA:-19%/mm, ICA:-33%/mm). OSI was dependent on spatial resolution for CCA (-26%/mm) and temporal resolution for ICA (-16%/100ms). The regions of low and high WSS and OSI matched for most of the spatiotemporal resolutions (CCA:30/30, ICA:28/30 cases for WSS; CCA:23/30, ICA:29/30 cases for OSI).


CONCLUSIONS
We show that both mean flow and mean WSS are independent of temporal resolution. Peak flow and OSI are dependent on both spatial and temporal resolution. However, the magnitude of mean and peak flow, WSS and OSI, and the spatial distribution of OSI and WSS did not exhibit a strong dependency on spatiotemporal resolution.
Biomedical Engineering Department, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Merih
M
Cibis
Radiology Department, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wouter V
WV
Potters
Biomedical Engineering Department, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Frank J
FJ
Gijsen
Radiology Department, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.|Biomedical Engineering and Physics Department, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Henk
H
Marquering
Radiology Department, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pim
P
van Ooij
Biomedical Engineering and Physics Department, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ed
E
vanBavel
Biomedical Engineering Department, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Jolanda J
JJ
Wentzel
Radiology Department, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aart J
AJ
Nederveen
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