Quantitative assessment of left ventricular function: Steady-state free precession MR imaging with or without sensitivity encoding

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1031-1035

  Kacere, Richard D ^a   Pereyra, Mercedes ^a   Nemeth, Margit A ^a   Muthupillai, Raja ^a,b   Flamm, Scott D ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; BLOOD TO MUSCLE CONTRAST; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING AND SENSITIVITY ENCODING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 18844389286     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353030995     Document Type: Review

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