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Multicenter Study
. 2016 Feb 1:18:8.
doi: 10.1186/s12968-016-0227-4.

UK Biobank's cardiovascular magnetic resonance protocol

Steffen E Petersen  1 , Paul M Matthews  2 , Jane M Francis  3 , Matthew D Robson  4 , Filip Zemrak  5 , Redha Boubertakh  6 , Alistair A Young  7 , Sarah Hudson  8 , Peter Weale  9 , Steve Garratt  10 , Rory Collins  11 , Stefan Piechnik  12 , Stefan Neubauer  13
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Multicenter Study

UK Biobank's cardiovascular magnetic resonance protocol

Steffen E Petersen et al. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. .

Abstract

Background: UK Biobank's ambitious aim is to perform cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in 100,000 people previously recruited into this prospective cohort study of half a million 40-69 year-olds.

Methods/design: We describe the CMR protocol applied in UK Biobank's pilot phase, which will be extended into the main phase with three centres using the same equipment and protocols. The CMR protocol includes white blood CMR (sagittal anatomy, coronary and transverse anatomy), cine CMR (long axis cines, short axis cines of the ventricles, coronal LVOT cine), strain CMR (tagging), flow CMR (aortic valve flow) and parametric CMR (native T1 map).

Discussion: This report will serve as a reference to researchers intending to use the UK Biobank resource or to replicate the UK Biobank cardiovascular magnetic resonance protocol in different settings.

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Planning of the short axis cine stack covering the entire left and right ventricles
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Transverse aortic cine at the level of the pulmonary trunk/right pulmonary artery
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Aortic valve flow imaging view planned using the sagittal and coronal left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) cines
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