Measuring human cardiac tissue sodium concentrations using surface coils, adiabatic excitation, and twisted projection imaging with minimal T2 losses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 546-555

  Ouwerkerk, Ronald ^a   Weiss, Robert G ^a   Bottomley, Paul A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

23Na MRI; Adiabatic pulses; Human heart; Quantitation; Sodium

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SODIUM 23;

ADIABATIC HALF PASSAGE EXCITATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; HEART EXCITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SURFACE CHARGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 17844372778     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20322     Document Type: Article

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