Cardiac MRI.
- Author:
Jongmin LEE
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Heart; Myocardial infarction; Ventricular function; Myocardial perfusion
- MeSH: Artifacts; Coronary Angiography; Coronary Vessels; Electrocardiography; Heart; Magnetic Resonance Imaging*; Metabolism; Myocardial Infarction; Myocardium; Perfusion; Respiration; Ventricular Function
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2007;11(1):1-9
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: The obstacles for cardiac imaging are motion artifacts due to cardiac motion, respiration, and blood flow, and low signal due to small tissue volume of heart. To overcome these obstacles, fast imaging technique with ECG gating is utilized. Cardiac exam using MRI comprises of morphology, ventricular function, myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and coronary artery morphology. During cardiac morphology evaluation, double and triple inversion recovery techniques are used to depict myocardial fluidity and soft tissue structure such as fat tissue, respectively. By checking the first-pass enhancement of myocardium using contrast-enhanced fast gradient echo technique, myocardial blood flow can be evaluated. In addition, delayed imaging in 10-15 minutes can inform myocardial destruction such as chronic myocardial infarction. Ventricular function including regional and global wall motion can be checked by fast gradient echo cine imaging in quantitative way. MRI is acknowledged to be practical for integrated cardiac evaluation technique except coronary angiography. Especially delay imaging is the greatest merit of MRI in myocardial viability evaluation.
