Short breath-hold, volumetric coronary MR angiography employing steady-state free precession in conjunction with parallel imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 885-894

  Niendorf, Thoralf ^a,b,d   Saranathan, Manojkumar ^a   Lingamneni, Anila ^a   Pedrosa, Ivan ^b   Spencer, Matthew ^b   Cline, Harvey ^c   Foo, Thomas K F ^a   Rofsky, Neil M ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary MR angiography; Parallel imaging; Short breath hold

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; BREATH HOLDS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; PARALLEL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

HEART;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RR INTERVAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 16444367513     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20446     Document Type: Article

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