Research Article

Free-Breathing 3D Imaging of Right Ventricular Structure and Function Using Respiratory and Cardiac Self-Gated Cine MRI

Table 1

RV functional measurements obtained with the standard breath-hold 2D and self-gated free-breathing 3D cine MRI ().

ā€‰RVEDV (mL)RVESV (mL)RVSV (mL)RVEF (%)

2D
3D
Bias
Correlation0.940.850.950.89
value (Pearson)0.0010.020.0010.007
value (Wilcoxon)0.020.740.020.02

Note: RVEDV: right ventricular end-diastolic volume, RVESV: right ventricular end-systolic volume, RVSV: right ventricular stroke volume, and RVEF: right ventricular ejection fraction.