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  • Title: [ECG-gated magnetic resonance imaging of the left ventricle: visualization of anatomical characteristics and quantification of wall thickness and ventricular volume in left ventricular hypertrophy].
    Author: Yoshida S, Ueno Y, Fujiwara S, Arita M, Hamada M, Nishio I, Masuyama Y.
    Journal: J Cardiol; 1987 Mar; 17(1):21-34. PubMed ID: 2963076.
    Abstract:
    Electrocardiography- and respiration-gated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed using a 0.15-Tesla resistive magnet system in 54 patients with left ventricular hypertrophy to define the site and extent of abnormal wall thickness and to estimate left ventricular function. Because the major cardiac axes are not orthogonal to the conventional transverse, sagittal or coronal planes, the long-axis and short-axis images of the left ventricle were obtained at the end-diastolic and end-systolic phases. The anatomic characteristics of concentric hypertrophy, asymmetric septal hypertrophy, and asymmetric apical hypertrophy were clearly demonstrated by MRI, even in patients with poor echocardiographic images. Quantitatively, left ventricular wall thicknesses obtained from MR images correlated well with those obtained from echocardiography (r = 0.95), and regression was y = 0.99x + 0.39, and so did the ratios of wall thickness of the interventricular septum to the left ventricular posterior wall (r = 0.91, y = 0.80x + 0.24). Left ventricular volumes calculated by the area-length method from MRI and those from left ventriculography also correlated well (r = 0.98, y = 1.13x + 24.5). In conclusion, using the gated long-axis and short-axis MR images of the left ventricle, the anatomical location and extent of hypertrophy and left ventricular volumes are noninvasively demonstrated.
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