Volume and planar gated cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a correlative study of normal anatomy with thallium-201 SPECT and cadaver sections.

Abstract

Magnetic resonance (MR) gated cardiac imaging was performed in ten subjects using a prototype 0.15-T resistive magnet imaging system. Volume and planar imaging techniques utilizing saturation recovery, proton Tl-weighted relaxation time pulse sequences produced images of the heart and great vessels with exquisite anatomic detail that showed excellent correlation with cadaver sections of the heart. The left ventricular myocardial segments also showed excellent correlation with the thallium-201 cardiac single photon emission computed tomography images. Volume acquisition allowed postprocessing selection of tomographic sections in various orientations to optimize visualization of a particular structure of interest. The excellent spatial and contrast resolution afforded by MR volume imaging, which does not involve the use of ionizing radiation and iodinated contrast material, should assure it a significant role in the diagnostic assessment of the cardiovascular system.

Die Bedeutung der Kernspintomographie in der heutigen Diagnostik

“…Es besteht kein Zweifel mehr daran, daß im Zusammenhang mit höheren Magnetfeldstärken eine Invivo-Spektroskopie ermöglicht werden wird (16,29), daß die Verwendung von Oberflächenspulen zu feinster Detaildarstellung, z. B. in Orbita, Mamma und Gelenken (1), führen und die EKG-Triggerung neue Dimensionen der Herzdiagnostik eröffnen wird (17,23,35,39,63).…”