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Open Access
01-12-2012 | Poster presentation
T2 mapping vs T2 weighted imaging in the detection of myocardial oedema
Authors:
Elisa McAlindon, Peter Weale, Jessica Harris, David Smith, Andreas Baumbach, Tom Johnson, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
The “gold standard” CMR sequence for assessing the myocardial oedema or area at risk following an acute coronary syndrome is controversial. T2 Short Tau Inversion Recovery (T2-STIR) is in widespread clinical use but can lack robustness. Steady state free precession oedema imaging (SSFP/ ACUT2E) has emerging data to support it as a more reproducible method for area at risk (AAR) assessment. We tested a novel T2 mapping method to AAR. The potential benefit of this method is that the numerical output of the method is largely independent of myocardial motion, instrumental errors (eg surface coil normalisation methods). The aim of this study was to compare the novel T2 mapping method with the two existing methods of assessing AAR (T2-STIR and SSFP/ACUT2E). …
