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Pulse-wave velocity measured in one heartbeat using MR tagging

✍ Scribed by Christopher K. Macgowan; R. Mark Henkelman; Michael L. Wood

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
232 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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✦ Synopsis

A noninvasive method for measuring the aortic pulse-wave velocity (PWV) in a single heartbeat is introduced. The method sinusoidally tags a column of blood within the vessel, and rapidly acquires a series of 1D projections of the tags as they move (in practice, 64 projections at 4-ms intervals). From these projections, the relative motion of blood at different positions along the vessel is measured. The PWV is obtained by fitting a mathematical model of blood flow to the tag trajectories. Tests of this method in a pulsatile flow phantom are presented using latex and polyurethane tubes. The PWV measured in these tubes was (mean +/- standard deviation) 4.4 +/- 0.5 m/s and 2.3 +/- 0.2 m/s, respectively. The distensibility of each tube was calculated from the PWV (latex = (7 +/- 2) 10(-3) mm Hg(-1), poly. = (25 +/- 4) 10(-3)mmHg(-1)) and found to agree within error with distensibility measurements based on the change of tube area with pressure (latex = (6.3 +/- 0.3) 10(-3)mmHg(-1), poly. = (27 +/- 1) 10(-3) mmHg(-1)). To test its feasibility, the PWV measurement was applied to four normal volunteers. The measured PWV values were 3.9 +/- 0.8 m/s, 3.6 +/- 0.9 m/s, 3.9 +/- 0.5 m/s, and 5.3 +/- 0.8 m/s. By acquiring an independent PWV measurement each heartbeat, errors introduced by arrhythmia and trigger variability appear to be avoided with this method.

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