relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1508/
title: Detecting Myocardial Ischemia at Rest with Cardiac Phase-Resolved BOLD CMR
creator: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
creator: Zhou, Xiangzhi 
creator: Tang, Richard
creator: Li, Debiao
creator: Dharmakumar, Rohan
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
subject: RC Internal medicine
description: Background—Fast, noninvasive identification of ischemic territories at rest (prior to tissue-specific changes) and assessment of functional status can be valuable in the management of severe coronary artery disease. This study investigated the utility of cardiac phase-resolved Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (CP-BOLD) CMR in detecting myocardial ischemia at rest secondary to severe coronary artery stenosis.    Methods and Results—CP-BOLD, standard-cine, and T2-weighted images were acquired in canines (n=11) at baseline and within 20 minutes of ischemia induction (severe LAD stenosis) at rest. Following 3-hours of ischemia, LAD stenosis was removed and T2-weighted and late-gadolinium-enhancement (LGE) images were acquired. From standard-cine and CP-BOLD images, End-Systolic (ES) and End-Diastolic (ED) myocardium were segmented. Affected and remote sections of the myocardium were identified from post-reperfusion LGE images. S/D, quotient of mean ES and ED signal intensities (on CP-BOLD and standard-cine), was computed for affected and remote segments at baseline and ischemia. Ejection fraction (EF) and segmental wall-thickening (sWT) were derived from CP-BOLD images at baseline and ischemia. On CP-BOLD images: S/D was greater than 1 (remote and affected territories) at baseline; S/D was diminished only in affected territories during ischemia and the findings were statistically significant (ANOVA, post-hoc p<0.01). The dependence of S/D on ischemia was not observed in standard-cine images. Computer simulations confirmed the experimental findings. ROC analysis showed that S/D identifies affected regions with similar performance (AUC:0.87) as EF (AUC:0.89) and sWT (AUC:0.75).    Conclusions—Preclinical studies and computer simulations showed that CP-BOLD CMR could be useful in detecting myocardial ischemia at rest. Patient studies are needed for clinical translation. 
publisher: American Heart Association
date: 2012-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Zhou, Xiangzhi  and Tang, Richard and Li, Debiao and Dharmakumar, Rohan  Detecting Myocardial Ischemia at Rest with Cardiac Phase-Resolved BOLD CMR.  Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.   ISSN 1941-9651      (2012)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.976076
relation: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.976076