Free-breathing whole-heart coronary MR angiography on a clinical scanner in four minutes

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 752-756

  Nehrke, Kay ^a   Börnert, Peter ^a   Mazurkewitz, Peter ^a   Winkelmann, Richard ^b   Gräßlin, Ingmar ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary MR angiography; Parallel imaging; Partial Fourier encoding; Whole heart free breathing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST; DEVICE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646167494     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20559     Document Type: Article

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