3D whole-brain vessel wall cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: a study on the reliability in the quantification of intracranial vessel dimensions

Autor: Na Zhang, Fan Zhang, Zixin Deng, Qi Yang, Marcio A. Diniz, Shlee S. Song, Konrad H. Schlick, M. Marcel Maya, Nestor Gonzalez, Debiao Li, Hairong Zheng, Xin Liu, Zhaoyang Fan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1532-429X
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-018-0453-z
Popis: Abstract Background One of the potentially important applications of three-dimensional (3D) intracranial vessel wall (IVW) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is to monitor disease progression and regression via quantitative measurement of IVW morphology during medical management or drug development. However, a prerequisite for this application is to validate that IVW morphologic measurements based on the modality are reliable. In this study we performed comprehensive reliability analysis for the recently proposed whole-brain IVW CMR technique. Methods Thirty-four healthy subjects and 10 patients with known intracranial atherosclerotic disease underwent repeat whole-brain IVW CMR scans. In 19 of the 34 subjects, two-dimensional (2D) turbo spin-echo (TSE) scan was performed to serve as a reference for the assessment of vessel dimensions. Lumen and wall volume, normalized wall index, mean and maximum wall thickness were measured in both 3D and 2D IVW CMR images. Scan-rescan, intra-observer, and inter-observer reproducibility of 3D IVW CMR in the quantification of IVW or plaque dimensions were respectively assessed in volunteers and patients as well as for different healthy subjectsub-groups (i.e. 0.75). In addition, all ICCs of patients were equal to or higher than that of healthy subjects except maximum wall thickness. In volunteers, all ICCs of the age group of ≥50 years were equal to or higher than that of the age group of
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