Techniques for high-speed cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in rats and rabbits

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 124-130

  Rehwald, Wolfgang G ^a   Reeder, Scott B ^a   McVeigh, Elliot R ^a   Judd, Robert M ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; rabbit; rat; RF coils

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CHEMICAL SHIFT; DISEASES; HEART; RATING; RATS;

CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL SHIFT IMAGING; GENETIC ALTERATIONS; NONINVASIVE EXAMINATION; RABBIT; RF COIL; TECHNICAL INFORMATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031032310     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370118     Document Type: Article

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