University of Groningen
Heartbeat-to-heartbeat cardiac tissue characterization
van den Boomen, Maaike
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Heartbeat-to-Heartbeat
Cardiac Tissue Characterization
Maaike van den Boomen
Boston, USA, 2020
Book cover:An abstract representation of the dynamically acquired septal T2-maps
per heartbeat from a very special study participant.
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Copyright 2020 Maaike van den Boomen
ISBN: 978-94-034-2702-7
ISBN (e-pub): 978-94-034-2703-4
Published by GVO drukkers & vormgevers B.V. - www.gvo.nl -Ede
The research described in this thesis was partly supported by grants from:
• The Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) Dekker grant under project number 2016T042;
• The National Institutes of Health under research grants: R01MH116173, R01EB020613, R01EB019437, U01EB025162, P41EB015896, and the shared in-strumentation grants: S10RR023401, S10RR019307, S10RR019254, S10RR023043.
The work described in this thesis was performed in collaboration with:
• Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Devision, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
• Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cell-Matrix Interaction for Cardiovas-cular Tissue Regeneration, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Heartbeat-to-Heartbeat
Cardiac Tissue Characterization
PhD thesis
to obtain the degree of PhD at the
University of Groningen
on the authority of the
Rector Magnificus Prof. C. Wijmenga
and in accordance with
the decision by the College of Deans
This thesis will be defended in public on
Monday 6 July 2020 at 18.00 hrs
Maaike van den Boomen
born on 24 March 1991
in Amsterdam
Supervisors
Prof. R.A.J.O. Dierckx Prof. R.H.J.A Slart
Co-supervisors
Dr. R.J.H. Borra Dr. N.H.J. Prakken
Assessment Committee
Prof. M.G. Friedrich Prof. M.A. Mariani Dr. J.R. Polimeni
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
I
Establishment of cardiac quantitative MRI reference values
7
Chapter 2: Native cardiac T1reference values 9
Chapter 3: Native cardiac T2and T2*reference values 55
II
Translation of novel cardiac MRI methods
133
Chapter 4: Triple-marker cardiac MRI to assess a regenerative therapy 135III
Development and validation of cardiac BOLD MRI
165
Chapter 5: Cardiac BOLD-MRI with GESE-EPI 167
Chapter 6: Cardiac BOLD-MRI in hypertensive patients 189 Chapter 7: Simultaneous multi-slice cardiac BOLD-MRI 205
IV
Development and feasibility of cardiac VAI
219
Chapter 8: Cardiac vessel architectural imaging 221 Chapter 9: General discussion and future perspectives 243Summary / Samenvatting 257 Bibliography 265 Biography 325 List of Publications 329 Acknowledgements 331 vii