Reiter, Clemens
Reiter, Gert
Kolesnik, Ewald
Scherr, Daniel
Schmidt, Albrecht
Fuchsjäger, Michael
Reiter, Ursula https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4374-2528
Funding for this research was provided by:
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (17934)
ESR/EIBIR (Seed Grant 2020)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2024
Revised: 9 April 2025
Accepted: 24 April 2025
First Online: 25 May 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Ursula Reiter.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: G.R. is a Research & Development employee of Siemens Healthineers. The study was performed under a Master Research Agreement between the Medical University of Graz, Graz University of Technology, and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics GmbH. U.R. is a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of European Radiology (section: Physics). As such, they did not participate in the selection or review processes for this article. The remaining authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. Ethical committee: Medical University of Graz, Austria. ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01728597 and NCT03253835.
: The diagnosis and grading of LV diastolic dysfunction based on the 2016 ASE/EACVI recommendations from 4D flow data with echocardiography as the reference method was not previously investigated. Data of study participants were included in the following previous publications, which focused on methodological aspects of 4D flow data evaluation or the introduction of novel 4D flow metrics:
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