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MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Cardiac Module (Revised 12-12-19)

Revision History


In addition to the exam-specific instructions in the following tables, review the following information prior to examination selection and submission. Failure to follow the guidance below may result in failure of the submitted examination.

  • The axial black blood sequence may be from a different patient from the other sequences.

  • Failure to meet anatomic coverage and imaging plane specifications may result in a fail of the submitted examination.



Delayed Enhanced Cine with Black Blood

Required Sequences

Category A: 

Pulse Sequence and Image Contrast

Category B: 

Anatomic Coverage and Imaging Planes

Category C: 

Spatial Resolution

BLACK BLOOD Axial or Oblique Axial 

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycleMust have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Must be T1 (1 R-R/short TE) or proton density weighted (2 R-R/short TE)

  • Must be in the axial or oblique axial plane

  • Must have good myocardium discrimination (including good blood suppression)

  • TE can be optimized for your system, but should be proton density/ T1 weighted (less than approximately 45 msec)

  • This sequence may be from a different patient from the other sequences

  • Must cover from aortic root to diaphragm (axial)

  • Slice thickness ≤ 8.0 mm

  • Gap ≤ 4.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 4.0 mm2

SHORT AXIS CINE

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycle

  • Must have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Real time cine images are not acceptable

  • Must show entire systolic cycle

  • Must have good myocardium discrimination

  • Must image end systole and end diastole

  • Steady State free precession technique is preferred, but fast gradient echo is allowed

  • Must cover entire left ventricle from base to apex

  • Slice thickness ≤ 10.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 4.0 mm2

  • Temporal resolution ≤ 80 msec (without view sharing)

LONG AXIS CINE 2 Chamber

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycle

  • Must have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Real time cine images are not acceptable

  • Must show entire systolic cycle

  • Must have good myocardium discrimination

  • Must image end systole and end diastole

  • Steady State free precession technique is preferred, but fast gradient echo is allowed

  • Single slice oriented vertically through the middle portion of the left atrium and the middle portion of the left ventricle

  • Slice thickness ≤ 8.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 4.0 mm2

  • Temporal resolution ≤ 80 msec (without view sharing)

LONG AXIS CINE 4 Chamber

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycle

  • Must have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Real time cine images are not acceptable

  • Must show entire systolic cycle

  • Must have good myocardium discrimination

  • Must image end systole and end diastole

  • Steady State free precession technique is preferred, but fast gradient echo is allowed

  • Single slice oriented vertically through the middle portion of the left atrium and the middle portion of the left ventricle

  • Slice thickness ≤ 8.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 4.0 mm2

  • Temporal resolution ≤ 80 msec (without view sharing)

LONG AXIS CINE 3 Chamber (Aortic Outflow Tract)

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycle

  • Must have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Real time cine images are not acceptable

  • Must show entire systolic cycle

  • Must have good myocardium discrimination

  • Must image end systole and end diastole

  • Steady State free precession technique is preferred, but fast gradient echo is allowed

  • Must include left atrium, left ventricle, mitral and aortic valves and aortic root in the same imaging plane

  • Single slice oriented vertically through the middle portion of the left atrium and the middle portion of the left ventricle

  • Slice thickness ≤ 8.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 4.0 mm2

  • Temporal resolution ≤ 80 msec (without view sharing)

DELAYED GADOLINIUM ENHANCED Short axis

  • Must be gated to the cardiac cycle

  • Must have no significant arrhythmia during the MRI cardiac cycle

  • Inversion prepared gradient echo pulse sequence

  • Must choose TI so that there is good suppression of normal myocardium

  • Must cover entire left ventricle from base to apex in the short axis

  • Slice thickness ≤ 10.0 mm

  • Gap ≤ 2.0 mm

  • Pixel area ≤ 5.9 mm2




Revision History for this Article

Date

Section

Description of Revision(s)

12-12-19

All

Article created; FAQs incorporated; No criteria changes



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