Award
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 1R01HL178618-01A1
Prenatal Diagnosis of Coarctation of the Aorta using CMR
Recipient
University of Colorado Denver
Award Amount
$624,789.00
Ceiling
$624,789.00
Awarded
June 09, 2026
Identifier
1R01HL178618-01A1
Award for developing advanced fetal cardiac MRI techniques to improve prenatal diagnosis of Coarctation of the aorta, a common congenital heart defect, by enhancing imaging accuracy and diagnostic methods.
Description
This project aims to develop and validate advanced fetal CMR techniques, including a novel acoustic lens for continuous fetal heartbeat gating and motion correction methods, to enhance prenatal diagnosis accuracy of Coarctation of the aorta (CoA), a severe congenital narrowing of the aorta. The project focuses on improving prenatal diagnosis through MRI to establish normative reference values for morphology and blood flow, and to assess diagnostic accuracy.