In vivo quantification of regional myocardial blood flow: Validity of the fast-exchange approximation for intravascular T1 contrast agent and long inversion time

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 340-347

  Wiart, Marlene ^a   Carme, Sabin ^a,b   Maï, Wilfried ^a   Larsson, Henrik B W ^c,d   Neyran, Bruno ^a   Canet Soulas, Emmanuelle ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Laboratoire Guerbet   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast medium; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium ischemia; Regional blood flow; Water exchange

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS;

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW; MYOCARDIUM ISCHEMIA; TISSUE CONCENTRATIONS; WATER EXCHANGE;

BLOOD;

ADENOSINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOTERIC ACID; P 717; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVASCULAR SPACE; FAST EXCHANGE APPROXIMATION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR SPACE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONG INVERSION TIME; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION RATE CHANGE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33746741661     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20969     Document Type: Article

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