Extended harmonic phase tracking of myocardial motion: Improved coverage of myocardium and its effect on strain results

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 682-690

  Tecelão, Sandra R R ^a,b,c   Zwanenburg, Jaco J M ^b   Kuijer, Joost P A ^b   Marcus, J Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Harmonic phase; Hubert transform; Myocardial strain; Myocardial tagging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646199072     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20571     Document Type: Article

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