Detailed motion analysis of the left ventricular myocardium using an MR tagging method with a dense grid

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-82

  Urayama, Shin Ichi ^a   Matsuda, Tetsuya ^b   Sugimoto, Naozo ^b   Mizuta, Shinobu ^b   Yamada, Naoaki ^a   Uyama, Chikao ^c  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dense grid tag; Left ventricular myocardium; MR tagging; Wall motion analysis

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HEART;

DENSE-GRID- TAG; IN-VITRO EVALUATION; INTERPOLATION ERROR; LEFT VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUMS; LOW CONTRAST IMAGE; MR TAGGING; MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION; WALL MOTION ANALYSIS;

MOTION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0033921218     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2594(200007)44:1<73::AID-MRM12>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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