ABSTRACT
Conventional cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is already considered the gold standard for global cardiac functional analysis. While the assessment of global function in itself would not generally be considered sufcient as an indication for a CMR study, quantitative global function assessment and qualitative regional function assessment with CMR have become routine in clinical CMR practice. Besides evaluating global heart function, CMR allows for measuring regional myocardial deformation parameters. Cine cardiac CMR images have been used for deriving parameters of heart function through different analysis techniques. Further, featuretracking techniques have been recently implemented for measuring myocardial deformation from conventional cine images. Nevertheless, the invention of MRI tagging in the late 1980s allowed, for the rst time, visualization of intramural
11.11.5 Electrophysiology............................................................................................................................................ 700 11.11.6 Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Disease........................................................................................................ 701 11.11.7 Other Diseases ................................................................................................................................................ 701 11.11.8 Flow Imaging .................................................................................................................................................. 701
11.12 What Is Next?................................................................................................................................................................ 701 11.12.1 Strain as a Game Changer in Cardiac MRI .................................................................................................... 701 11.12.2 The Future of Heart Mechanics with MRI ..................................................................................................... 703
11.13 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................................................... 704 Acknowledgment ...................................................................................................................................................................... 704 References ................................................................................................................................................................................. 704
myocardial movement without having to implant physical markers in the heart, which opened the door for a series of developments and improvements that continue up to the present day.
