Performance of CMR stress/rest automated myocardial perfusion parametric mapping (perfusion map) as compared to manual plotting of the slope curves

Background Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) stress/rest myocardial perfusion is usually assessed in clinical practice by qualitative visual analysis. There might be some added value in analyzing upslope perfusion curves, but those are labor and time consuming. We aimed to evaluate a new inline post processing tool that allows for completely automatic construction of upslope curves with parametric pixelwise construction of perfusion myocardial maps.