Validation of 2D flow MRI for helical and vortical flows

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PURPOSE: The main objective of this study was to develop two-dimensional (2D) phase contrast (PC) methods to quantify the helicity and vorticity of blood flow in the aortic root.

METHODS: This proof-of-concept study used four-dimensional (4D) flow cardiovascular MR (4D flow CMR) data of five healthy controls, five patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and five patients with aortic stenosis (AS). A PC through-plane generated by 4D flow data was treated as a 2D PC plane and compared with the original 4D flow. Visual assessment of flow vectors was used to assess helicity and vorticity. We quantified flow displacement (FD), systolic flow reversal ratio (sFRR) and rotational angle (RA) using 2D PC.

RESULTS: For visual vortex flow presence near the inner curvature of the ascending aortic root on 4D flow CMR, sFRR demonstrated an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.955, p<0.001. A threshold of >8% for sFRR had a sensitivity of 82% and specificity of 100% for visual vortex presence. In addition, the average late systolic FD, a marker of flow eccentricity, also demonstrated an AUC of 0.909, p<0.001 for visual vortex flow. Manual systolic rotational flow angle change (ΔsRA) demonstrated excellent association with semiautomated ΔsRA (r=0.99, 95% CI 0.9907 to 0.999, p<0.001). In reproducibility testing, average systolic FD (FDsavg) showed a minimal bias at 1.28% with a high intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC=0.92). Similarly, sFRR had a minimal bias of 1.14% with an ICC of 0.96. ΔsRA demonstrated an acceptable bias of 5.72°-and an ICC of 0.99.

CONCLUSION: 2D PC flow imaging can possibly quantify blood flow helicity (ΔRA) and vorticity (FRR). These imaging biomarkers of flow helicity and vorticity demonstrate high reproducibility for clinical adoption.

TRIALS REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT05114785.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Open heart - 11(2024), 1 vom: 08. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mehmood, Zia [VerfasserIn]
Assadi, Hosamadin [VerfasserIn]
Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran [VerfasserIn]
Li, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Matthews, Gareth [VerfasserIn]
Alabed, Samer [VerfasserIn]
Girling, Rebekah [VerfasserIn]
Underwood, Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Kasmai, Bahman [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Xiaodan [VerfasserIn]
Ricci, Fabrizio [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Aung, Nay [VerfasserIn]
Petersen, Steffen Erhard [VerfasserIn]
Swift, Andrew J [VerfasserIn]
Vassiliou, Vassilios S [VerfasserIn]
Cavalcante, João [VerfasserIn]
Geest, Rob J van der [VerfasserIn]
Garg, Pankaj [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aortic Diseases
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Heart Failure
Journal Article
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 11.03.2024

Date Revised 19.03.2024

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05114785

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/openhrt-2023-002451

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369485068