Abstract #3163

Identification and Measurement of Anatomical Landmarks Using Fetal Cardiac Cine MRI in Comparison with the Clinical Gold Standard Echocardiography

Jerome Yerly^1,2, Jerome Chaptinel¹, Yvan Mivelaz³, Milan Prsa³, Leonor Alamo¹, Yvan Vial ⁴, Gregoire Berchier¹, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux^1,2, Chantal Rohner^1,2, and Matthias Stuber^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland

The recent development of a self-gated framework to reconstruct cardiac cine MR images without the need for an external ECG signal has opened the door to prenatal cardiac examination with MRI. This study investigates the potential of this technique for fetal cardiac MRI and compares its performance with the clinical gold standard echocardiography. Standard views from clinical fetal echocardiographic examinations were acquired with both imaging modalities and two experienced readers independently compared them qualitatively and quantitatively. The results showed good agreement between the two modalities and validate the use of MRI for prenatal evaluation of the heart.

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