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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Published in: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 1/2008

Open Access 01-12-2008 | Research

Estimating myocardial perfusion from dynamic contrast-enhanced CMR with a model-independent deconvolution method

Authors: Nathan A Pack, Edward VR DiBella, Thomas C Rust, Dan J Kadrmas, Christopher J McGann, Regan Butterfield, Paul E Christian, John M Hoffman

Published in: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | Issue 1/2008

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Abstract

Background

Model-independent analysis with B-spline regularization has been used to quantify myocardial blood flow (perfusion) in dynamic contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) studies. However, the model-independent approach has not been extensively evaluated to determine how the contrast-to-noise ratio between blood and tissue enhancement affects estimates of myocardial perfusion and the degree to which the regularization is dependent on the noise in the measured enhancement data. We investigated these questions with a model-independent analysis method that uses iterative minimization and a temporal smoothness regularizer. Perfusion estimates using this method were compared to results from dynamic 13N-ammonia PET.

Results

An iterative model-independent analysis method was developed and tested to estimate regional and pixelwise myocardial perfusion in five normal subjects imaged with a saturation recovery turboFLASH sequence at 3 T CMR. Estimates of myocardial perfusion using model-independent analysis are dependent on the choice of the regularization weight parameter, which increases nonlinearly to handle large decreases in the contrast-to-noise ratio of the measured tissue enhancement data. Quantitative perfusion estimates in five subjects imaged with 3 T CMR were 1.1 ± 0.8 ml/min/g at rest and 3.1 ± 1.7 ml/min/g at adenosine stress. The perfusion estimates correlated with dynamic 13N-ammonia PET (y = 0.90x + 0.24, r = 0.85) and were similar to results from other validated CMR studies.

Conclusion

This work shows that a model-independent analysis method that uses iterative minimization and temporal regularization can be used to quantify myocardial perfusion with dynamic contrast-enhanced perfusion CMR. Results from this method are robust to choices in the regularization weight parameter over relatively large ranges in the contrast-to-noise ratio of the tissue enhancement data.
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Metadata
Title
Estimating myocardial perfusion from dynamic contrast-enhanced CMR with a model-independent deconvolution method
Authors
Nathan A Pack
Edward VR DiBella
Thomas C Rust
Dan J Kadrmas
Christopher J McGann
Regan Butterfield
Paul E Christian
John M Hoffman
Publication date
01-12-2008
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance / Issue 1/2008
Electronic ISSN: 1532-429X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-10-52

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