Abstract #0605

Imaging Fetal Congenital Heart Disease Using Motion Compensated Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Christopher W Roy^1,2,3, Davide Marini⁴, David F. A. Lloyd^5,6, Wadi Mawad⁴, Shi-Joon Yoo^4,7, Eric M. Schrauben², Edgar Jaeggi^2,4,7, Mike Seed^4,7, and Christopher K. Macgowan^2,3

¹Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Translational Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Pediatric Cardiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology, Evelina Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁷Pediatrics and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

In pregnancies where fetal congenital heart disease is suspected during routine obstetric ultrasound, a thorough echocardiographic workup is required to assess the fetal cardiac anatomy and function. MRI has been increasingly proposed as an adjunct diagnostic tool to evaluate the fetus. In this work, we present a newly developed method for reconstructing high-resolution dynamic MR images of the fetal heart, evaluate this modality in the context of visualizing cardiac abnormalities, and compare to echocardiography. We show that MRI of the fetal heart has the potential to compliment echocardiography in the assessment of congenital heart disease.

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