Normal values for cardiovascular magnetic resonance in adults and children

Nadine Kawel-Boehm; Alicia Maceira; Emanuela R Valsangiacomo-Buechel; Jens Vogel-Claussen; Evrim B Turkbey; Rupert Williams; Sven Plein; Michael Tee; John Eng; David A Bluemke

doi:10.1186/s12968-015-0111-7

Normal values for cardiovascular magnetic resonance in adults and children

J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2015 Apr 18;17(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s12968-015-0111-7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Kantonsspital Graubuenden, Loestrasse 170, 7000, Chur, Switzerland. nadine.kawel@gmx.de.
² Cardiac Imaging Unit, Eresa Medical Center, C/Marqués de San Juan s/n, 46015, Valencia, Spain. amaceira@eresa.com.
³ Division of Paediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland. emanuela.valsangiacomo@kispi.uzh.ch.
⁴ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, OE 8220, Carl-Neuberg-Str 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. vogel-claussen.jens@mh-hannover.de.
⁵ Radiology and Imaging Sciences/ Clinical Image Processing Service, Clinical Center, NIH, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. eturkbe2@jhmi.edu.
⁶ The Rayne Institute, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK. rupertpwilliams@googlemail.com.
⁷ Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre & Leeds Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, LIGHT Laboratories, Clarendon Way, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. s.plein@leeds.ac.uk.
⁸ Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1074, USA. michael.tee@nih.gov.
⁹ Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. jeng@jhmi.edu.
¹⁰ Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1074, USA. bluemked@nih.gov.

Abstract

Morphological and functional parameters such as chamber size and function, aortic diameters and distensibility, flow and T1 and T2* relaxation time can be assessed and quantified by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). Knowledge of normal values for quantitative CMR is crucial to interpretation of results and to distinguish normal from disease. In this review, we present normal reference values for morphological and functional CMR parameters of the cardiovascular system based on the peer-reviewed literature and current CMR techniques and sequences.

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Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aorta / physiology*
Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnosis
Cardiovascular Diseases / physiopathology
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Middle Aged
Predictive Value of Tests
Reference Values
Sex Factors
Vascular Stiffness
Ventricular Function, Left*
Ventricular Function, Right*
Young Adult

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