Horizontal long axis: known as a 4-chamber view.
Short axis plane-multiple/contiguous
Vertical long axis: known as a 2-chamber view
Vertical Long Axis (VLA)
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract
Pulmonary Artery
Phase Contrast Aorta
Phase Contrast PA
IMAGING PLANES OF CARDIAC MRI
sagittal single-shot fast spin-echo image is used as an initial localizer for coronal imaging
Coronal single-shot fast spin echo-aortic valve
Four-chamber gradient-echo image oblique axial plane serves as a localizer for the short-axis view
Coronal single-shot fast spin-echo image obtained off the sagittal plane. To localize the atrioventricular valve level, an imaging plane is prescribed along a line connecting the cardiac apex and the level of the middle of the atrioventricular valve, as shown.
Four-chamber gradient-echo image-cross sectional depiction of the atrioventricular valves
The 3-chamber view can be prescribed from the left ventricular outflow tract view of a short-axis view. This view displays the aortic and mitral valves immediately adjacent to one another.
Left ventricular outflow view: Steady-state gradient echo (SSFP [steady-state free precession]) left ventricular outflow view demonstrates a bicuspid aortic valve and an aortic jet secondary to aortic stenosis.
Short axis plane-multiple/contiguous
Vertical long axis: known as a 2-chamber view
Short axis plane-Short Axis Stack (SAS)
Vertical Long Axis (VLA)
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract
Pulmonary Artery
Phase Contrast Aorta
Phase Contrast PA
IMAGING PLANES OF CARDIAC MRI
sagittal single-shot fast spin-echo image is used as an initial localizer for coronal imaging
Coronal single-shot fast spin echo-aortic valve
Four-chamber gradient-echo image oblique axial plane serves as a localizer for the short-axis view
Coronal single-shot fast spin-echo image obtained off the sagittal plane. To localize the atrioventricular valve level, an imaging plane is prescribed along a line connecting the cardiac apex and the level of the middle of the atrioventricular valve, as shown.
Four-chamber gradient-echo image-cross sectional depiction of the atrioventricular valves
The 3-chamber view can be prescribed from the left ventricular outflow tract view of a short-axis view. This view displays the aortic and mitral valves immediately adjacent to one another.
Left ventricular outflow view: Steady-state gradient echo (SSFP [steady-state free precession]) left ventricular outflow view demonstrates a bicuspid aortic valve and an aortic jet secondary to aortic stenosis.
