Abstract #0800
Clinical impact of automatic failure mode evaluation using self-calibrated phase contrast correction in phase contrast cardiac MRI
Ana Beatriz Solana1, Savine C.S. Minderhoud2,3, Piotr A. Wielopolski3, Juan A. Hernandez-Tamames3,4, Ricardo P.J. Budde2,3, Willem A. Helbing5, Martin A. Janich1, and Alexander Hirsch2,3
1GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany, 2Department of Cardiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 3Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4Department of Imaging Physics, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 5Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Synopsis
Phase contrast (PC) cardiac MRI is clinically used to quantify flow. The quantification accuracy is diminished by background phase errors. Stationary tissue-based background phase correction algorithms are commercially available, but their accuracy is still under evaluation. Here, we investigate if a self-calibrated phase contrast (SCPC) algorithm which includes automatic failure mode classification, can improve accuracy in a large single-vendor multi-scanner study including 346 PC scans. Our results show that SCPC improves flow quantification accuracy and can identify most PC scans which are unreliable regardless of stationary tissue correction or not.
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