Abstract #0044

Myocardial T2* Changes Periodically across the Cardiac Cycle and is Prolonged in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A 7.0 Tesla MRI Patient Study

Till Huelnhagen¹, Fabian Hezel¹, Teresa Serradas Duarte¹, Min-Chi Ku¹, Bert Flemming², Erdmann Seeliger², Marcel Prothmann³, Jeanette Schulz-Menger³, and Thoralf Niendorf^1,4,5

¹Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association(MDC), Berlin, Germany, ²Institute for Physiology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ³Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the, Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, ⁵DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ultrahigh field MR (UHF-MR) enables temporally resolved myocardial T₂* mapping which benefits probing the myocardium at different physiological states. Myocardial BOLD contrast or T₂* are commonly regarded as surrogates for myocardial tissue oxygenation, but the factors influencing T₂* are manifold including cardiac macromorphology. Meaningful interpretation of myocardial T₂* could be beneficial for understanding cardiac (patho)physiology in vivo, but requires careful identification of influential factors and their contributions to T₂*. To this end, this study examines the relationship between myocardial T₂* and myocardial wall thickness and investigates it’s capability to distinguish between healthy myocardium and myocardium affected by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

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