Myocardial tissue tagging with cardiovascular magnetic resonance

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is currently the gold standard for assessing both global and regional myocardial function. New tools for quantifying regional function have been recently developed to characterize early myocardial dysfunction in order to improve the identification and management of individuals at risk for heart failure. Of particular interest is CMR myocardial tagging, a non-invasive technique for assessing regional function that provides a detailed and comprehensive examination of intra-myocardial motion and deformation. Given the current advances in gradient technology, image reconstruction techniques, and data analysis algorithms, CMR myocardial tagging has become the reference modality for evaluating multidimensional strain evolution in the human heart. This review presents an in depth discussion on the current clinical applications of CMR myocardial tagging and the increasingly important role of this technique for assessing subclinical myocardial dysfunction in the setting of a wide variety of myocardial disease processes.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Cardiovasc Magn Reson

Title: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Publisher: BioMed Central

ISSN (Print): 1097-6647

ISSN (Electronic): 1532-429X

Publication date Collection: 2009

Publication date (Electronic): 21 December 2009

Volume: 11

Issue: 1

Page: 55

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[1 ]Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

[2 ]Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

[3 ]Department of Radiology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Publisher ID: 1532-429X-11-55

DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-11-55

PMC ID: 2809051

PubMed ID: 20025732

SO-VID: 71c61b60-463d-4db8-9669-df18766ca72e

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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