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Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Medical Physics
  • Pulmonary Medicine

Background:

  • Exercise-induced dyspnea is an early symptom of heart failure, often linked to increased lung water.
  • Accurate quantification of dynamic lung water during exercise is crucial for early disease detection.
  • Current methods may lack the temporal resolution to capture transient lung water changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a time-resolved 3D MRI technique for quantifying lung water dynamics during rest and exercise.
  • To assess the feasibility of this method in healthy subjects and patients with heart failure.
  • To investigate lung water accumulation patterns under different physiological conditions.

Main Methods:

  • A continuous 3D stack-of-spirals proton density weighted MRI sequence was used at 0.55T.
  • Motion-corrected sliding-window reconstruction provided 90-second temporal resolution.
  • A supine MRI-compatible ergometer facilitated exercise, with global and regional lung water density (LWD) quantified.

Main Results:

  • Healthy subjects showed a significant increase in lung water density (ΔLWD) during exercise, peaking at 16 ± 6.8%.
  • Regional LWD was consistently higher in the posterior compared to anterior lung regions.
  • Patients with heart failure exhibited slower lung water accumulation rates than healthy subjects.

Conclusions:

  • Time-resolved 3D MRI with sliding-window reconstruction enables quantification of lung water dynamics during exercise.
  • This technique holds promise for the early detection of heart failure by identifying abnormal lung water accumulation.
  • The method demonstrated its ability to differentiate physiological responses in healthy individuals and patients.