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Cardiac function and myocardial perfusion immediately following maximal treadmill exercise inside the MRI room by Mihaela Jekic; Eric L Foster; Michelle R Ballinger; Subha V Raman; Orlando P Simonetti is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cardiac function and myocardial perfusion immediately following maximal treadmill exercise inside the MRI room about?
Treadmill exercise stress testing is an essential tool in the prevention, detection, and treatment of a broad spectrum of cardiovascular disease. After maximal exercise, cardiac images at peak stress are typically acquired using nuclear scintigraphy or echocardiography, both of which have inherent limitations. Although CMR offers superior image quality, the lack of MRI-compatible exercise and monitoring equipment has prevented the realization of treadmill exercise CMR. It is critical to commence imaging as quickly as possible after exercise to capture exercise-induced cardiac wall motion abnormalities. We modified a commercial treadmill such that it could be safely positioned inside the MRI room to minimize the distance between the treadmill and the scan table. We optimized the treadmill exercise CMR protocol in 20 healthy volunteers and successfully imaged cardiac function and myocardial perfusion at peak stress, followed by viability imaging at rest. Imaging commenced an average of 30 seconds after maximal exercise. Real-time cine of seven slices with no breath-hold and no ECG-gating was completed within 45 seconds of exercise, immediately followed by stress perfusion imaging of
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- Author
- Mihaela Jekic; Eric L Foster; Michelle R Ballinger; Subha V Raman; Orlando P Simonetti
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); New York NY: Marcel Dekker; New York N.Y.: Informa Healthcare; London: 2008-; Informa UK Limited; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1097-6647)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)