How much are atrial volumes and ejection fractions assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging influenced by the ECG gating method?

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 587-593

  Sievers, Burkhard ^a,b   Addo, Marvin ^a   Kirchberg, Simon ^a   Bakan, Asli ^a   John Puthenveettil, Binu ^a   Franken, Ulrich ^a   Trappe, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial ejection fractions; Atrial volumes; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Prospective ECG triggering; Retrospective gating; Steady state free precession gradient echo sequence (SSFP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; SYSTOLE; VOLUNTEER;

CARDIAC VOLUME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE;

EID: 20044368261     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JCMR-200060635     Document Type: Article

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