Corrections of myocardial tissue sodium concentration measurements in human cardiac 23Na MRI at 7 Tesla

• Verfasst von: Lott, Johanna [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Platt, Tanja [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Niesporek, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Paech, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Behl, Nicolas G. R. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Niendorf, Thoralf [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bachert, Peter [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Ladd, Mark E. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Nagel, Armin Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Corrections of myocardial tissue sodium concentration measurements in human cardiac 23Na MRI at 7 Tesla
• Verf.angabe: Johanna Lott, Tanja Platt, Sebastian C. Niesporek, Daniel Paech, Nicolas G.R. Behl, Thoralf Niendorf, Peter Bachert, Mark E. Ladd, Armin M. Nagel
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: 12 March 2019
• Umfang: 15 S.
• Fussnoten: Im Titel ist "23" hochgestellt ; Gesehen am 13.12.2019
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Magnetic resonance in medicine
• Ort Quelle: New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Liss, 1984
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: 82(2019), 1, Seite 159-173
• ISSN Quelle: 1522-2594
• DOI: doi:10.1002/mrm.27703
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: 7 Tesla
• Sach-SW: oval-shaped body coil
• Sach-SW: partial volume correction
• Sach-SW: quantitative sodium (23Na) cardiac MRI
• Sach-SW: retrospective cardiac and respiratory gating
• K10plus-PPN: 1685508480

Abstract

Purpose To quantify the tissue sodium concentration (TSC) in cardiac 23Na MRI. To evaluate the influence of different correction methods on the measured myocardial TSC. Methods 23Na MRI of four healthy subjects was conducted at a whole-body 7T MRI system using an oval-shaped 23Na birdcage coil. Data acquisition was performed with a density-adapted 3D radial pulse sequence using a golden angle projection scheme. 1H MRI data were acquired at a 3T MRI system to generate a myocardial mask. Retrospective cardiac and respiratory gating were used to reconstruct 23Na MRI data in the diastolic phase and exhaled state. B0 and B1 inhomogeneity and partial volume (PV) effects were corrected. Relaxation times and TSC of ex vivo blood samples and calf muscle were determined. These values were used in the PV correction to estimate myocardial TSC, which was compared with the measured TSC of calf muscle. Results Without any correction the measured myocardial TSC was (54 ± 5) mM. The applied correction methods reduced these values by (48 ± 5)% to (29 ± 3) mM, where PV correction had the largest effect (reduction of (34 ± 1)%). Respiratory and cardiac motion gating decreased the concentrations by (11 ± 1)%. With the applied setup, the corrections of B0 and B1 inhomogeneity (reduction of (3 ± 2)%) had negligible influences on TSC values. The resulting myocardial TSC was approximately 1.4-fold higher than the measured TSC of calf muscle tissue of the same healthy subjects ((20 ± 3) mM). Conclusion For quantitative human cardiac 23Na MRI several corrections are needed and ranked for our setup: PV correction, respiratory and cardiac gating, correction for B1 inhomogeneity effects.