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Timing of cardiac contraction in humans mapped by high-temporal-resolution MRI tagging: early onset and late peak of shortening in lateral wall

¹Department of Physics and Medical Technology and ²Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, VU 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Submitted 5 November 2003 ; accepted in final form 9 January 2004

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 with high-temporal-resolution (14 ms) MRI myocardial tagging and strain analysis. Both the onset time of circumferential shortening (T_onset) in early systole and the time of peak circumferential shortening (T_peak) 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 T_onset was found, with earliest onset in the lateral wall and latest onset in the septum (P = 0.001). Compared with T_onset, T_peak 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). Postsystolic shortening (T_peak later than aortic valve closure; P < 0.05) was observed in 13 of the 30 cardiac segments, mainly in the lateral and 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 a reference in detecting mechanical asynchrony due to intraventricular conduction defects or ischemia.

left ventricular mechanical asynchrony; healthy human heart; post-systolic shortening; relaxation

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