Comparison of Displacement Encoding With Stimulated Echoes to Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking for the Assessment of Myocardial Strain in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

The aim of this study was to compare myocardial strain by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) to those derived from displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Twenty patients (65 pa13 years) with AMI underwent cine, DENSE, black-blood T2-weighted and late gadolinium enhancement CMR at 1.5 T. Global and segmental strain was determined by CMR-FT analysis and DENSE on matched 3 short-axis planes. Global circumferential strain by CMR-FT showed a good agreement with that by DENSE (r = 0.85, p <0.001; bias 0.02, limits of agreement −0.03 to 0.06). For segmental circumferential strain, r coefficient between CMR-FT and DENSE was 0.61 (p <0.001) with bias of 0.02, limits of agreement of −0.07 to 0.11. Regional circumferential strain determined by CMR-FT in infarct segments (−0.08 ± 0.05) was significantly altered compared with that in remote normal segments (−0.15 ± 0.05, p <0.001). CMR-FT measurement of regional and global circumferential strain showed good agreement with DENSE in patients with AMI.