January 25, 2021 A free-breathing, 3D whole-heart T2 MRI mapping sequence can efficiently and reproducibly quantify myocardial T2 times in patients with suspected myocarditis, and potentially even detect more cases of cardiac inflammation than standard 2D T2 maps, according to research published online January 19 in
Researchers led by first author Aurélien Bustin, PhD, and senior author Claudia Prieto, PhD, of King s College London found that their free-breathing 3D T2 mapping sequence was highly reproducible and even enabled confident identification of myocarditis in cases that were inconclusive on T2 mapping.
Further analysis in a larger patient cohort is needed, but myocardial 3D T2 mapping may be a viable tool for the visualization of inflammation and may potentially afford improved sensitivity, the authors wrote.
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Education Bachelor in Romance Languages and Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1959), PhD from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1968)
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Shall we start by talking about your time as a student? There are three years at the start of my career that I consider decisive for the development of my intellectual and teaching approach: 1960, 1961, and 1962. In 1948, when I was 12, my family moved to Belo Horizonte, where I obtained my degree in romance languages from UFMG [Federal University of Minas Gerais] in 1959. At that time, there were no master’s and PhD programs in Brazil. Generally speaking, you would apply to become a professor at a university and, if approved, you then received the title of doctor. Therefore, if you wanted to continue your training, you had to leave the country. I was interested in French literature and culture and got a CAPES [Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education] scholarship fo