Importance of k-space trajectory in echo-planar myocardial tagging at rest and during dobutamine stress

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 813-820

  Kim, Daniel ^a,b,d   Bove, Christina M ^c   Kramer, Christopher M ^a,c   Epstein, Frederick H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress; Echo planar imaging; MRI; Myocardial tagging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIXELS; SPACE FLIGHT;

DOBUTAMINE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; K-SPACE TRAJECTORIES; MYOCARDIAL TAGGING; PARAMETER DEPENDENTS; PHASE-DISCONTINUITIES; TAG CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIOS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

TRAJECTORIES;

DOBUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ENERGY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARAMETER; REST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPACE; STRESS; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0141617512     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10589     Document Type: Article

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