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Open Access
01-12-2012 | Poster presentation
Speckle tracking for cardiac MRI in patients pre and post dilation and stent implantation of aortic coarctation
Authors:
Dirk Lossnitzer, Hannah Bellsham-Revell, Aaron Bell, Andreas Schuster, Tarique Hussain, Rene M Botnar, Reza Razavi, Gerald F Greil
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Current assessment techniques for regional contractility require cardiac magnetic resonance-tagged or strain encoded imaging sequences and their analysis is complex. A new steady-state free precession cine sequence (SSFP) based technique called feature tracking can readily be performed on standard SSFP sequences. To test the feasibility of feature tracking in patients with coarctation of the aorta (CoA) and to quantify regional contractility patterns pre and post percutaneous dilation and stent implantation in the region of CoA. …