Advances in clinical applications of cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking in cardiovascular diseases
CHEN Weijie
XIE Wei
DING Jing
CHAI Ruolin
ZHANG Zheng
Abstract：Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging feature tracking(CMR-FT)technology is a novel post-processing tech-nique based on conventional cine magnetic resonance imaging sequences,primarily used to assess global and regional myocar-dial function.It offers advantages such as ease of post-processing,high spatial resolution,and the absence of a need for addi-tional specialized sequences.CMR-FT plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of cardiovascular diseases in the following aspects:in ischemic heart disease,it enables monitoring of myocardial functional recovery post-PCI;in cardiac amyloidosis,it identifies the characteristic apical sparing strain pattern for differential diagnosis and risk stratification;in dilated cardiomyopathy,atrial strain parameters(particularly right atrial strain)provide superior prognostic value compared to ventricu-lar strain indices;in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,this technique enables early detection of myocardial dysfunction and reliable prediction of disease progression;and in systemic sclerosis,it facilitates early detection of right ventricular dysfunction and pre-dicts patient mortality.Compared to other CMR-based strain techniques,CMR-FT is simpler,more practical,more accessible,and less time-consuming for comprehensive myocardial functional analysis,which provides clinicians with more reliable quantita-tive assessment tools.
Keywords：Cardiac magnetic resonance imagingFeature tracking technologyCardiovascular diseasesMyocardial strain
Publication Date：2025-12-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-02-04(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 143-147,152 )