Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Zhou, Xiangzhi and Li, Debiao and Dharmakumar, Rohan A new quantitative imaging biomarker for identifying critical coronary artery stenosis with myocardial BOLD MRI. In: 18th Meeting of the international society for magnetic resonance in medicine, 1-7 May 2010, Stockholm, Sweden (Unpublished) (2010)
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Blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) MRI may be used for detecting myocardial oxygenation changes secondary to coronary artery stenosis (CAS). Under pharmacological stress, areas of the myocardium supplied by a stenotic coronary artery appear hypointense relative to healthy regions in BOLD images. The purpose of this work is to present a fundamentally new approach for visualizing and quantifying regional myocardial BOLD signal changes. This approach, tested in canines, relies on the statistical identification of myocardial pixels affected by CAS, correlates strongly with true flow measurements, and most importantly, leads to a significant increase in sensitivity to microvascular flow changes compared to previous approaches.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software R Medicine > RC Internal medicine T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Research Area: | Computer Science and Applications |
| Depositing User: | Users 35 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2011 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2013 15:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/845 |
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