PURPOSE: The stiffness of a myocardial infarct affects the left ventricular pump function and remodeling. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a noninvasive imaging technique for measuring soft-tissue stiffness in vivo. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of assessing in vivo regional myocardial stiffness with high-frequency 3D cardiac MRE in a porcine model of myocardial infarction, and compare the results with ex vivo uniaxial tensile testing. METHODS: Myocardial infarct was induced in a porcine model by embolizing the left circumflex artery. Fourteen days postinfarction, MRE imaging was performed in diastole using an echocardiogram-gated spin-echo echo-planar-imaging sequence with 140-Hz vibrations and 3D MRE processing. The MRE stiffness and tensile modulus from uniaxial testing were compared between the remote and infarcted myocardium. RESULTS: Myocardial infarcts showed increased in vivo MRE stiffness compared with remote myocardium (4.6 ± 0.7 kPa versus 3.0 ± 0.6 kPa, P = 0.02) within the same pig. Ex vivo uniaxial mechanical testing confirmed the in vivo MRE results, showing that myocardial infarcts were stiffer than remote myocardium (650 ± 80 kPa versus 110 ± 20 kPa, P = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate the feasibility of assessing in vivo regional myocardial stiffness with high-frequency 3D cardiac MRE. Magn Reson Med 79:361-369, 2018.
PURPOSE: The stiffness of a myocardial infarct affects the left ventricular pump function and remodeling. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a noninvasive imaging technique for measuring soft-tissue stiffness in vivo. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of assessing in vivo regional myocardial stiffness with high-frequency 3D cardiac MRE in a porcine model of myocardial infarction, and compare the results with ex vivo uniaxial tensile testing. METHODS:Myocardial infarct was induced in a porcine model by embolizing the left circumflex artery. Fourteen days postinfarction, MRE imaging was performed in diastole using an echocardiogram-gated spin-echo echo-planar-imaging sequence with 140-Hz vibrations and 3D MRE processing. The MRE stiffness and tensile modulus from uniaxial testing were compared between the remote and infarcted myocardium. RESULTS:Myocardial infarcts showed increased in vivo MRE stiffness compared with remote myocardium (4.6 ± 0.7 kPa versus 3.0 ± 0.6 kPa, P = 0.02) within the same pig. Ex vivo uniaxial mechanical testing confirmed the in vivo MRE results, showing that myocardial infarcts were stiffer than remote myocardium (650 ± 80 kPa versus 110 ± 20 kPa, P = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate the feasibility of assessing in vivo regional myocardial stiffness with high-frequency 3D cardiac MRE. Magn Reson Med 79:361-369, 2018.
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