Enhanced echocardiographic assessment of intracardiac flow in congenital heart disease
4D Flow MRI can evaluate and measure the complex blood flow patterns in the right ventricle (RV) in congenital heart diseases, but its limited availability makes it challenging to have a widespread application in assessing cardiac blood flow.
The aim of the study by Dr. Brett A. Meyers and colleagues at Purdue University is to compare the cardiac blood flow parameters measured by Color Doppler Velocity Reconstruction (DoVeR) with those measured by 4D Flow MRI to establish the effectiveness of 4D Flow MRI.
As a result, 4D Flow MRI has been reported as a reliable alternative method for quantifying cardiac hemodynamic parameters in the RV when using DoVeR.
Reference
Brett A. Meyers,Jiacheng Zhang,Jonathan Nyce,Yue-Hin Loke,Pavlos P. Vlachos, "Enhanced echocardiographic assessment of intracardiac flow in congenital heart disease", PLOS ONE, Published Online (2024) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300709.
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