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Abstract #4913

Evaluation of Sex and Age Differences in Myocardial Microstructure using Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Shi Chen1, Jaume Coll-Font1,2,3, Robert Eder1, Anna Foster 1, Salva Yurista 1,2,3, and Christopher T. Nguyen1,2,3,4
1Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, 2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 4Division of Health Science Technology, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Synopsis

Sexes and ages are known factors that contribute to cardiovascular pathophysiological variances and prognosis. This study used in-vivo cardiac diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) to characterize how myocardial microstructure differs across sexes and ages. To that purpose, thirty healthy volunteers (14 female) were imaged with in-vivo cardiac DT-MRI and common DT-MRI parameters (MD, FA, HAT, E2A) were computed within the left ventricle (LV). No significant sex-related differences (11%, 9%, 3%, 9% respectively for MD, FA, HAT, E2A at septal regions) or age-related correlations were found. Taken together, sex and age had no effects on the quantification of in-vivo cardiac DT-MRI parameters.

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