Reference values for healthy human myocardium using a T1 mapping methodology: results from the International T1 Multicenter cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

• Published in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance Vol. 16; no. 1; p. 69
• Main Authors: Dabir, Darius, Child, Nicholas, Kalra, Ashwin, Rogers, Toby, Gebker, Rolf, Jabbour, Andrew, Plein, Sven, Yu, Chung-Yao, Otton, James, Kidambi, Ananth, McDiarmid, Adam, Broadbent, David, Higgins, David M, Schnackenburg, Bernhard, Foote, Lucy, Cummins, Ciara, Nagel, Eike, Puntmann, Valentina O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 21.10.2014; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biomedical research; Contrast Media; Control equipment; Europe; Family medical history; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Heart; Heart rate; Human; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - standards; Male; Mapping; Medical research; Methodology; Methods; Middle Aged; Myocardial Contraction; Myocardium; New South Wales; Observer Variation; Predictive Value of Tests; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Risk; Routines; Sex Factors; Software; Studies; Ventricular Function, Left; Ventricular Function, Right; Young Adult; New South Wales; Europe; Canada

T1 mapping is a robust and highly reproducible application to quantify myocardial relaxation of longitudinal magnetisation. Available T1 mapping methods are presently site and vendor specific, with variable accuracy and precision of T1 values between the systems and sequences. We assessed the transf...