A 72-channel receive array coil allows whole-heart cine MRI in two breath holds

Hugo Klarenberg, Mark Gosselink, Bram F Coolen, Tim Leiner, Aart J Nederveen, Adrianus J Bakermans, Hildo J Lamb, S Matthijs Boekholdt, Martijn Froeling, Gustav J Strijkers

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Abstract

Background: A new 72-channel receive array coil and sensitivity encoding, compressed (C-SENSE) and noncompressed (SENSE), were investigated to decrease the number of breath-holds (BHs) for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). Methods: Three-T CMRs were performed using the 72-channel coil with SENSE-2/4/6 and C-SENSE-2/4/6 accelerated short-axis cine two-dimensional balanced steady-state free precession sequences. A 16-channel coil with SENSE-2 served as reference. Ten healthy subjects were included. BH-time was kept under 15 s. Data were compared in terms of image quality, biventricular function, number of BHs, and scan times. Results: BHs decreased from 7 with C-SENSE-2 (scan time 70 s, 2 slices/BH) to 3 with C-SENSE-4 (scan time 42 s, 4–5 slices/BH) and 2 with C-SENSE-6 (scan time 28 s, 7 slices/BH). Compared to reference, image sharpness was similar for SENSE-2/4/6, slightly inferior for C-SENSE-2/4/6. Blood-to-myocardium contrast was unaffected. C-SENSE-4/6 was given lower qualitative median scores, but images were considered diagnostically adequate to excellent, with C-SENSE-6 suboptimal. Biventricular end-diastolic (EDV), end-systolic (ESV) and stroke volumes, ejection fractions (EF), cardiac outputs, and left ventricle (LV)-mass were similar for SENSE-2/4/6 with no systematic bias and clinically appropriate limits of agreements. C-SENSE slightly underestimated LV-EDV (-6.38 ± 6.0 mL, p < 0.047), LV-ESV (-7.94 ± 6.0 mL, p < 0.030) and overestimated LV-EF (3.16 ± 3.10%; p < 0.047) with C-SENSE-4. Bland-Altman analyses revealed minor systematic biases in these variables with C-SENSE-2/4/6 and for LV-mass with C-SENSE-6. Conclusions: Using the 72-channel coil, short-axis CMR for quantifying biventricular function was feasible in two BHs where SENSE slightly outperformed C-SENSE.

Original languageEnglish
Article number54
Pages (from-to)1-13
JournalEuropean radiology experimental
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • Breath Holding
  • Healthy volunteers
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine/methods
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (cine)
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Stroke volume
  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Breath holding
  • Heart ventricles

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