Chronic pulmonary embolism: Combining MR angiography with functional assessment

Radiology

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 325-326

  Prince, Martin R ^a,b   Alderson, Philip O ^b   Sostman, H Dirk ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital subtraction angiography; Editorials; Hypertension, pulmonary; Magnetic resonance (MR), vascular studies; Pulmonary arteries, flow dynamics; Pulmonary arteries, MR; Pulmonary arteries, thrombosis

Indexed keywords

AORTA FLOW; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 3242800345     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2322040783     Document Type: Review

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