• J Cardiovasc Magn Reson · Jan 2007

    Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study

    Comparison of SSFP and IR GRE techniques for measurement of total myocardial mass-influence of applied contrast dosage and implication for relative infarct size assessment.

    • F Grothues, H Boenigk, A Ghanem, A Schwerdtfeger, D Bartels, S Alpers, C Tempelmann, and H U Klein.
    • Department of Cardiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany. frank.grothues@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
    • J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2007 Jan 1; 9 (3): 607-14.

    ObjectiveTo compare total left ventricular mass assessment using steady state free precession (SSFP) and inversion recovery fast gradient echo (IR GRE) imaging and further to assess the influence of contrast dosage on mass by IR GRE and its implications on relative infarct size assessment with both methods.MethodsForty-three patients with first documented myocardial infarction and single vessel disease underwent measurement of total myocardial mass using SSFP technique and an IR GRE sequence. As part of a Phase 2 multi-center dose ranging study for infarct identification patients received 1 of 4 possible dosages (0.05, 0.1, 0.2 or 0.3 mmol/kg body weight) of the contrast agent gadoversetamide (OptiMARK, Tyco Healthcare Mallinckrodt, St. Louis, MO, USA).ResultsLeft ventricular mass assessment using IR GRE resulted in a slightly greater detection of myocardial mass than from the SSFP images (160.1 and 156.4 g, respectively, p < 0.001). The overall good correlation of both methods (R2 = 0.97 for the total study group, p < 0.001) was further improved by using gadoversetamide at doses of 0.2 or 0.3 mmol/kg (R2= 0.99, p < 0.001), mainly as a result of a considerably higher blood-myocardial contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) in the IR GRE images. Bland-Altman analysis in these subgroups showed very little scatter of the residuals over the mean (3.5 +/- 5.4 g and 1.3 +/- 6.9 g respectively, 95% confidence interval). The observed differences in total mass calculation, while statistically significant, were not correlated with clinically relevant differences in estimation of relative infarct size.ConclusionTotal LV mass calculations using SSFP and IR GRE techniques are interchangeable when using appropriate contrast media, such as gadoversetamide. Late gadolinium enhancement results in good blood myocardial CNR. Hence, for relative infarct size assessment either method for calculation of total myocardial mass can be used.

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