Dark Flow Artifacts with Steady-State Free Precession Cine MR Technique: Causes and Implications for Cardiac MR Imaging

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 569-575

  Li, Wei ^a   Storey, Pippa ^a   Chen, Qun ^a   Li, Belinda S Y ^b   Prasad, Pottumarthi V ^a   Edelman, Robert R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), artifact; Magnetic resonance (MR), image processing; Phantoms; Test objects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FLOW KINETICS; HEART DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEADY STATE; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1642458186     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2302021257     Document Type: Article

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