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Regional in vivo transit time measurements of aortic pulse wave velocity in mice with high-field CMR at 17.6 Tesla
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Transgenic mouse models are increasingly used to study the pathophysiology of human cardiovascular diseases. The aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an indirect measure for vascular stiffness and a marker for cardiovascular risk.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>This study presents a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) transit time (TT) method that allows the determination of the PWV in the descending murine aorta by analyzing blood flow waveforms. Systolic flow pulses were recorded with a temporal resolution of 1 ms applying phase velocity encoding. In a first step, the CMR method was validated by pressure waveform measurements on a pulsatile elastic vessel phantom. In a second step, the CMR method was applied to measure PWVs in a group of five eight-month-old apolipoprotein E deficient (ApoE<sup>(-/-)</sup>) mice and an age matched group of four C57Bl/6J mice. The ApoE<sup>(-/-) </sup>group had a higher mean PWV (PWV = 3.0 ± 0.6 m/s) than the C57Bl/6J group (PWV = 2.4 ± 0.4 m/s). The difference was statistically significant (p = 0.014).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The findings of this study demonstrate that high field CMR is applicable to non-invasively determine and distinguish PWVs in the arterial system of healthy and diseased groups of mice.</p
In vivo NMR-Methoden zur Untersuchung von atherosklerotischen VerÀnderungen an MÀusen
Background Transgenic mouse models are increasingly used to study the pathophysiology of human cardiovascular diseases. The aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an indirect measure for vascular stiffness and a marker for cardiovascular risk. Results This work presents three MR-methods that allow the determination of the PWV in the descending murine aorta by analyzing blood flow waveforms, arterial distension waveforms, and a method that uses the combination of flow and distension waveforms. Systolic flow pulses were recorded with a temporal resolution of 1 ms applying phase velocity encoding. In a first step, the MR methods were validated by pressure waveform measurements on pulsatile elastic vessel phantoms. In a second step, the MR methods were applied to measure PWVs in a group of five eight-month-old apolipoprotein E deficient (ApoE(-/-)) mice and an age matched group of four C57Bl/6J mice. The ApoE(-/-) group had a higher mean PWV than the C57Bl/6J group. Depending on the measurement technique, the differences were or were not statistically significant. Conclusions The findings of this study demonstrate that high field MRI is applicable to non-invasively determine and distinguish PWVs in the arterial system of healthy and diseased groups of mice.Hintergrund Transgene Mausmodelle werden zunehmend fĂŒr Studien der Pathophysiologie humaner KardiovaskulĂ€rer Erkrankungen herangezogen. Die aortale Pulswellengeschwindigkeit ist ein indirektes MaĂ fĂŒr die GefĂ€Ăsteifigkeit und ein Messparameter fĂŒr kardiovaskulares Risiko. Ergebnisse Diese Arbeit prĂ€sentiert drei MR-Methoden, welche die Bestimmung der Pulswellengeschwindigkeit in der absteigenden murinen Aorta durch die Analyse von Fluss- und Dehnungswellen und durch eine Kombination beider Techniken ermöglicht. Systoliche Flusspulse wurden durch Phasendifferenzbildgebung mit einer Zeitauflösung von 1 ms aufgenommen. In einem ersten Schritt wurden die MR-Methoden durch druckkathetermessungen an einem pulsatilen elastischen GefĂ€Ăphantom validiert. In einem zweiten Schritt wurden die MR-Methoden angewendet, um die Pulswellengeschwindigkeit in einer Gruppe aus fĂŒnf acht Monate alten atherosklerotischen und einer gleichalterigen Gruppe aus vier gesunden MĂ€usen zu messen. Die atherosklerotische Gruppe hatte eine höhere mittlere Pulswellengeschwindigkeit als die gesunden Tiere. AbhĂ€ngig von der Messmethode waren die Unterschiede signifikannt, oder nicht signifikant. Schlussfolgerung Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit belegen die Möglichkeit der Messung der arteriellen Pulswellengeschwindigkeit an MĂ€usen mittels Hochfeld-MRI und die Unterscheidbarkeit gesunder und atherosklerotischer Tiergruppen