Navigator-gated coronary magnetic resonance angiography using steady-state-free-precession : Comparison to standard T2-prepared gradient-echo and spiral imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 263-268

  Spuentrup, Elmar ^a,b,e   Buecker, Arno ^a   Stuber, Matthias ^b,c   Botnar, Rene ^b,c   Nguyen, Trung Hieu ^a   Börnert, Peter ^d   Kölker, Christian ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast; Coronary artery disease; Coronary magnetic resonance angiography; Coronary vessel; Motion

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038753991     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200305000-00004     Document Type: Article

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