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Radiology, Vol 186, 189-194, Copyright © 1993 by Radiological Society of North America

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Aortic regurgitation: quantitation with MR imaging velocity mapping

N Honda, K Machida, M Hashimoto, T Mamiya, T Takahashi, T Kamano, A Kashimada, Y Inoue, S Tanaka and N Yoshimoto
Department of Radiology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Japan.

Aortic regurgitation (AR) in five healthy volunteers and 26 patients (mean age, 60.3 years; range, 25-83 years) was quantitatively measured with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging velocity mapping. Cine transverse images of the ascending aorta (32 phases per cardiac cycle) were acquired by using a gradient-echo sequence with a velocity-encoding bipolar pulse applied in the section-selection direction with a 1.5-T MR imaging unit. The aortic flow was calculated by integrating the product of area and mean velocity of the ascending aorta at each phase over a cardiac cycle. The negative and positive velocity values indicated antegrade and regurgitant flow, respectively, which allowed calculation of forward and regurgitant flow. Inter- and intraobserver variation of regurgitant fraction (RF) measurement was small (r = .956, standard error of the estimate [SEE] = 1.2%, n = 31; and r = .998, SEE = 0.35%, n = 10, respectively). RF determined with MR imaging agreed well with Doppler echocardiographic (n = 26) and aortographic (n = 9) grading of AR. Reproducible, quantitative, and noninvasive measurement of AR is possible with MR velocity mapping.


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