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Table 1 CMR pulse sequence parameters

From: Probing the intravascular and interstitial compartments of remodeled myocardium in heart failure patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction: a CMR study

Tecnique

Sequence

Parameters

Notes on Image Generation

Cine imaging

Breath-hold segmented steady state free precession

flip angle:56°; voxel size: 1,4 × 1,4 × 6,0

TR/TE:37,1/1,19 ms, matrix: 256 × 208; field-of-view: 300 × 240 mm2; parlallel imaging acquisition technique: 2; cardiac phases: 25

 

T1-mapping

2D Breath-hold MOdified Look-Locker Inversion-Recovery (MOLLI)

Acquisition Sampling Scheme:

a) pre-contrast (native): 5 (3)3

b) Post-contrast: 4 (1)3 (1)2

Read-out: SSFP single-shot, trigger delay in mid-diastole, flip angle: 35°, voxel size: 1.5 × 1.5x8mm3; parallel acquisition factor: 2, number of inversion pulse 2 and 3 for native and post-contrast

Generation of inline motion corrected pixel-based T1-maps by acquiring a series of images over several heart-beats with shifted inversion delays corrected by RR duration

T2-mapping

2D Breath-hold T2-prepared SSFP sequence

Read-out: single-shot SSFP, trigger delay in mid-diastole, flip angle: 70°, voxel size: 1.9 × 1.9x8mm3, matrix size: 192 × 154;; FOV: 360x288mm2, parlallel imaging acquisition technique: 2

Generation of inline motion corrected pixel-based T2-maps by acquiring 3 images with different T2 preparation time (0, 25, 55 ms) with a gap of 2 RR interval within 1 breath-hold

Late gadolinium enhancement

2D breath-hold segmented T1-weighted gradient echo inversion recover with phase sensative reconstraction

Flip angle: 35°; voxel size: 1,3 × 1,3 × 8 mm3; matrix size; 256 × 208; TR.TE:848/3,8 ms; FOV: 340 × 275 mm2; parallel acquisition factor 2, number of segment: 20 to 30