Myocardial T1 mapping and extracellular volume quantification: a Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and CMR Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology consensus statement

Rapid innovations in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) now permit the routine acquisition of quantitative measures of myocardial and blood T1 which are key tissue characteristics. These capabilities introduce a new frontier in cardiology, enabling the practitioner/investigator to quantify biologically important myocardial properties that otherwise can be difficult to ascertain clinically. CMR may be able to track biologically important changes in the myocardium by: a) native T1 that reflects myocardial disease involving the myocyte and interstitium without use of gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCA), or b) the extracellular volume fraction (ECV)-a direct GBCA-based measurement of the size of the…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• NI
  National Institute for Health and Care Research
• BH
  Bayer HealthCare
• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• KI
  Karolinska Institutet
• SL
  Stockholms Läns Landsting
• V
  Vetenskapsrådet
• BD
  Bracco Diagnostics
• CC
  Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: HL004607-14CPB
• NH
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• ND
  NHLBI Division of Intramural Research