First-pass contrast-enhanced myocardial perfusion MRI using a maximum up-slope parametric map

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 574-580

  Ruan, Chun ^a   Yang, Scott ^b,c   Clarke, Geoffrey D ^a   Amurao, Maxwell R ^a   Partyka, Scott R ^d   Bradley, Yong C ^e   Cusi, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^c South Texas Radiology Group ^*  (United States)

^d South Texas Radiology Group   (United States)

^e BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging; Myocardial perfusion; Parametric map; Stress test

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARDIAC FUNCTION; LINEAR CURVE FITTING MODEL; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; PARAMETRIC MAP; STRESS TEST;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746885452     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.872058     Document Type: Article

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