American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 160, 979-985, Copyright © 1993 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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Determination of cardiac ejection fraction and left ventricular volume: contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine MR imaging vs IV digital subtraction ventriculography

K Matsumura, E Nakase, T Haiyama, K Takeo, K Shimizu, K Yamasaki and K Kohno
Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto Minami Hospital, Japan.

OBJECTIVE. To assess the accuracy of contrast-enhanced, single breath- hold cine MR imaging in the calculation of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction, we compared values obtained by using this method with those obtained by using IV digital subtraction angiography (IV- DSA). SUBJECTS AND METHODS. All patients (n = 28) had conventional cine and contrast-enhanced ultrafast cine MR imaging. For ultrafast cine MR imaging, a phase-rewind gradient-echo (rewind-SMASH) sequence was used: TR, 8 msec (standard excitation and acquisition block of 6 msec with phase rewind pulse of 2 msec); TE, 3.2 msec; a 128 x 96 matrix (pile encode factor, 6; k-space segment, 16); a 200-mm field of view; and one excitation. RESULTS. Values for left ventricular volume and ejection fraction obtained with ultrafast cine MR imaging correlated well with those obtained with IV-DSA (end-diastolic volume, y = 0.986x - 7.79, r = .985; end-systolic volume, y = 0.863x + 0.71, r = .984; ejection fraction, y = 0.877x + 6.44, r = .887). In the calculation of left ventricular volume by the area-length method, manual tracing of the left ventricular cavity was more difficult when the conventional cine method was used than when the enhanced ultrafast cine method was used. CONCLUSION. Our results show that cardiac multiphase study with horizontal long-axis, first-pass, contrast-enhanced, single breath- hold, cine MR imaging is an accurate and highly reproducible method of evaluating left ventricular volume and ejection fraction.
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