Two repetition time saturation transfer (TwiST) with spill-over correction to measure creatine kinase reaction rates in human hearts

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Research

Angela Steinberg¹  Refaat E. Gabr²  Michael Schär³  Paul A. Bottomley³  Robert G. Weiss⁴  AbdEl-Monem M. El-Sharkawy⁵ 

[1] Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA;Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt;

关键词: Saturation transfer;    Human heart;    Metabolism;    Reaction rate;    High-energy phosphate;    Heart failure;    3 Tesla;    Creatine-kinase;    TwiST;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12968-015-0175-4

 received in 2015-02-18, accepted in 2015-07-21,  发布年份 2015

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPhosphorus saturation transfer (ST) magnetic resonance spectroscopy can measure the rate of ATP generated from phosphocreatine (PCr) via creatine kinase (CK) in the human heart. Recently, the triple-repetition time ST (TRiST) method was introduced to measure the CK pseudo-first-order rate constant kf in three acquisitions. In TRiST, the longitudinal relaxation time of PCr while γ-ATP is saturated, T1`, is measured for each subject, but suffers from low SNR because the PCr signal is reduced due to exchange with saturated γ-ATP, and the short repetition time of one of the acquisitions. Here, a two-repetition time ST (TwiST) method is presented. In TwiST, the acquisition with γ-ATP saturation and short repetition time is dropped. Instead of measuring T1`, an intrinsic relaxation time T1 for PCr, T1intrinsic, is assumed. The objective was to validate TwiST measurements of CK kinetics in healthy subjects and patients with heart failure (HF).MethodsBloch equation simulations that included the effect of spillover irradiation on PCr were used to derive formulae for T1intrinsic and kf measured by both TRiST and TwiST methods. Spillover was quantified from an unsaturated PCr measurement used in the current protocol for determining PCr and ATP concentrations. Cardiac TRiST and TwiST data were acquired at 3 T from 12 healthy and 17 HF patients.ResultsSimulations showed that both kf measured by TwiST and T1intrinsic require spill-over corrections. In human heart at 3 T, the spill-over corrected T1intrinsic = 8.4 ± 1.4 s (mean ± SD) independent of study group. TwiST and TRiST kf measurements were the same, but TwiST was 9 min faster. Spill-over corrected TwiST kf was 0.33 ± 0.08 s−1 vs. 0.20 ± 0.06 s−1 in healthy vs HF hearts, respectively (p < 0.0001).ConclusionTwiST was validated against TRiST in the human heart at 3 T, generating the same results 9 min faster. TwiST detected significant reductions in CK kf in HF compared to healthy subjects, consistent with prior 1.5 T studies using different methodology.

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