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1 Department of Physics and Medical Technology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 Department of Cardiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jjm.zwanenburg{at}vumc.nl.
Mechanical asynchrony is an important parameter in predicting the response to cardiac resynchronization therapy, but detailed knowledge of cardiac contraction timing in healthy persons is scarce. In this work, timing of cardiac contraction was mapped in 17 healthy subjects using high temporal resolution (14 ms) MRI myocardial tagging and strain analysis. Both the onset time of circumferential shortening (Tonset) in early systole, and the time of peak circumferential shortening (Tpeak) at end systole, were determined. The onset of shortening width (time needed for 20-90% of the left ventricle to start shortening) was small (35 ± 9 ms). A distinct spatial pattern for Tonset was found, with earliest onset in the lateral wall and latest onset in the septum (P = 0.001). Compared to Tonset, the Tpeak had a larger width (121 ± 22 ms) and an opposite spatial pattern, with peak shortening occurring earlier in the septum than in the lateral wall (P < 0.001). Post-systolic shortening (Tpeak later than aortic valve closure with P < 0.05), was observed in 13 of the 30 cardiac segments, mainly in the lateral and in the basal segments. Shortening in these segments continued 58 ± 14 ms after aortic valve closure, during which circumferential shortening increased from 16.9 ± 1.2 % to 20.0 ± 1.5 %. Maps of the timing of contraction in normal subjects may serve as reference in detecting mechanical asynchrony due to intraventricular conduction defects or ischemia.
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