Myocardial Feature Tracking Reduces Observer-Dependence in Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

• Andreas Schuster ,

  * E-mail: andreas_schuster@gmx.net

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Georg-August-University and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK, Partner Site), Göttingen, Germany, King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Matthias Paul,

  Affiliation King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Nuno Bettencourt,

  Affiliation Cardiology Department—Centro Hospitalar de Gaia/Espinho, Porto, Portugal

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• Shazia T. Hussain,

  Affiliation King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Geraint Morton,

  Affiliation King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Shelby Kutty,

  Affiliation Joint Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Nebraska/Creighton University, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Boris Bigalke,

  Affiliations King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, Berlin, Germany

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• Amedeo Chiribiri,

  Affiliation King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Divaka Perera,

  Affiliations King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom, King's College London BHF Centre of Excellence, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Department of Cardiology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Eike Nagel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eike Nagel, Philipp Beerbaum

  Affiliation King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Philipp Beerbaum

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eike Nagel, Philipp Beerbaum

  Affiliations King's College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Medical Engineering Centre; Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas´ Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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