MDCT determination of volume and function of the left ventricle: Are short-axis image reformations necessary?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 6 SUPPL. A, 2006, Pages

  Juergens, Kai U ^a   Seifarth, Harald ^a   Maintz, David ^a   Grude, Matthias ^a   Ozgun, Murat ^a   Wichter, Thomas ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Fischbach, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axial image reformations; Cine MRI; Left ventricular function; MDCT; Semiautomated MDCT data analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745577939     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1764     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Nieman K, Cademartiri F, Lemos PA, Raaijmakers R, Pattynama PM, De Feyter PJ. Reliable noninvasive coronary angiography with fast submillimeter multislice spiral computed tomography. Circulation 2002; 106:2051-2054
2. Nieman K, Pattynama PM, Rensing BJ, Van Geuns RJ, De Feyter PJ. Evaluation of patients after coronary artery bypass surgery: CT angiographic assessment of grafts and coronary arteries. Radiology 2003; 229:749-756
3. Ropers D, Baum U, Pohle K, et al. Detection of coronary artery stenoses with thin-slice multi-detector row spiral computed tomography and multiplanar reconstruction. Circulation 2003; 107:664-666
4. Fallenberg M, Juergens KU, Wichter T, Scheld HH, Fischbach R. Coronary artery aneurysm and type-A aortic dissection demonstrated by retrospectively ECG-gated multislice spiral CT. Eur Radiol 2002; 12:201-204
5. Juergens KU, Grude M, Fallenberg EM, et al. Using ECG-gated multidetector CT to evaluate global left ventricular myocardial function in patients with coronary artery disease. AJR 2002; 179:1545-1550
6. Mahnken AH, Spüntrup E, Wildberger JE, et al. Quantification of cardiac function with multislice spiral CT using retrospective EKG-gating: comparison with MRI [in German]. Röfo 2003; 175:83-88
7. Juergens KU, Grude M, Maintz D, et al. Multi-detector row CT of left ventricular function with dedicated analysis software versus MR imaging: initial experience. Radiology 2004; 230:403-410
8. Grude M, Juergens KU, Wichter T, et al. Evaluation of global left ventricular myocardial function with electrocardiogram-gated multidetector computed tomography: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging. Invest Radiol 2003; 38:653-661
9. Dirksen MS, Bax JJ, de Roos A, et al. Usefulness of dynamic multislice computed tomography of left ventricular function in unstable angina pectoris and comparison with echocardiography. Am J Cardiol 2002; 90:1157-1160
10. Van der Geest RJ, Buller VG, Jansen E, et al. Comparison between manual and semiautomated analysis of left ventricular volume parameters from short-axis MR images. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1997; 21:756-765
11. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986; 1:307-310
12. Lee KS, Marwick TH, Cook SA, et al. Prognosis of patients with left ventricular dysfunction, with and without viable myocardium after myocardial infarction: relative efficacy of medical therapy and revascularization. Circulation 1994; 90:2687-2694
13. Alfakih K, Plein S, Thiele H, Jones T, Ridgway JP, Sivananthan MU. Normal human left and right ventricular dimensions for MRI as assessed by turbo gradient echo and steady-state free precession imaging sequences. J Magn Reson Imaging 2003; 17:323-329
14. Cranney GB, Lotan CS, Dean L, Baxley W, Bouchard A, Pohost GM. Left ventricular volume measurement using cardiac axis nuclear magnetic resonance imaging: validation by calibrated ventricular angiography. Circulation 1990; 82:154-163
15. MacMillan RM, Murphy JH, Kresh Y, et al. Left ventricular volumes using cine MRI: validation by catheterization ventriculography. Am J Card Imaging 1990; 4:79-85
16. Benjelloun H, Cranney GB, Kirk KA, Blackwell GG, Lotan CS, Pohost GM. Interstudy reproducibility of biplane cine nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of left ventricular function. Am J Cardiol 1991; 67:1413-1420
17. Boehm T, Alkadhi H, Roffi M, et al. Time-effectiveness, observer-dependence, and accuracy of measurements of left ventricular ejection fraction using 4-channel MDCT. Röfo 2004; 176:529-537