Abstract #0127
            Endogenous assessment of diffuse myocardial fibrosis with T1ρ-mapping in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
                       Joep van Oorschot                       1                      , Johannes Gho                       1                      , 						Sanne de Jong                       1                      , Aryan Vink                       1                      , Fredy 						Visser                       2                      , Jacques de Bakker                       3                      , 						Steven Chamuleau                       1                      , Peter Luijten                       1                      , 						Tim Leiner                       1                      , and Jaco Zwanenburg                       1           
            
             1
            
            University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, 
						Utrecht, Netherlands,
            
             2
            
            Philips 
						Healthcare, Best, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands,
            
             3
            
            AMC, 
						Amsterdam, Netherlands
           
            
           Quantitative methods such as T1 mapping and ECV mapping 
						provide information on diffuse fibrosis formation in 
						patients with DCM. Recently it was shown that a 
						significantly higher T1ρ is found in compact myocardial 
						fibrosis. Here we validate cardiac T1ρ-mapping in 
						patients with DCM, and correlate with ECV-mapping and 
						fibrosis histology. Three explanted hearts from DCM 
						patients were scanned and histological fibrosis was 
						compared to the corresponding T1ρ value, with a Pearson 
						correlation r=0.27. In vivo T1ρ-mapping was performed in 
						6 DCM patients, where a significantly higher T1ρ (59.54 
						ms) was found compared to healthy controls (503 ms).
          
				
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