Novel fast FFR derived from coronary CT angiography based on static first-pass algorithm: a comparison study

Lin YANG; Wen-Jia WANG; Chao XU; Tao BI; Yi-Ge LI; Si-Cong WANG; Lei XU

doi:10.26599/1671-5411.2023.01.002

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Please cite this article as: YANG L, WANG WJ, XU C, BI T, LI YG, WANG SC, XU L. Novel fast FFR derived from coronary CT angiography based on static first-pass algorithm: a comparison study. J Geriatr Cardiol 2023; 20(1): 40−50. DOI: 10.26599/1671-5411.2023.01.002

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Please cite this article as: YANG L, WANG WJ, XU C, BI T, LI YG, WANG SC, XU L. Novel fast FFR derived from coronary CT angiography based on static first-pass algorithm: a comparison study. J Geriatr Cardiol 2023; 20(1): 40−50. DOI: 10.26599/1671-5411.2023.01.002

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Novel fast FFR derived from coronary CT angiography based on static first-pass algorithm: a comparison study

doi: 10.26599/1671-5411.2023.01.002

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Department of Radiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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GE Healthcare China

Funds: This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1908211), the Capital Medical Development Research Foundation of China (PXM2020_026272_000013), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant 2016YFC1300300) for Dr. Xu L.

Wen-Jia WANG, Yi-Ge LI and Si-Cong WANG are employees of GE healthcare (China) and declare no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise. All other authors declare no relationships with any company whose products or services may relate to the subject matter of the article.

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Available Online: 2023-02-06
Publish Date: 2023-01-28

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BACKGROUND Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is the invasive gold standard for evaluating coronary arterial stenosis. However, there have been a few non-invasive methods such as computational fluid dynamics FFR (CFD-FFR) with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) images that can perform FFR assessment. This study aims to develop a new method based on the principle of static first-pass of CT perfusion imaging technique (SF-FFR) and evaluate the efficacy in direct comparisons between CFD-FFR and the invasive FFR. METHODS A total of 91 patients (105 coronary artery vessels) who were admitted from January 2015 to March 2019 were enrolled in this study, retrospectively. All patients underwent CCTA and invasive FFR. 64 patients (75 coronary artery vessels) were successfully analyzed. The correlation and diagnostic performance of SF-FFR method on per-vessel basis were analyzed, using invasive FFR as the gold standard. As a comparison, we also evaluated the correlation and diagnostic performance of CFD-FFR. RESULTS The SF-FFR showed a good Pearson correlation (r = 0.70, P < 0.001) and intra-class correlation (r = 0.67, P < 0.001) with the gold standard. The Bland-Altman analysis showed that the average difference between the SF-FFR and invasive FFR was 0.03 (0.11–0.16); between CFD-FFR and invasive FFR was 0.04 (-0.10–0.19). Diagnostic accuracy and area under the ROC curve on a per-vessel level were 0.89, 0.94 for SF-FFR, and 0.87, 0.89 for CFD-FFR, respectively. The SF-FFR calculation time was about 2.5 s per case while CFD calculation was about 2 min on an Nvidia Tesla V100 graphic card. CONCLUSIONS The SF-FFR method is feasible and shows high correlation compared to the gold standard. This method could simplify the calculation procedure and save time compared to the CFD method.

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