Postmortem unenhanced magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial infarction in correlation to histological infarction age characterization

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 2459-2467

  Jackowski, Christian ^a   Christe, Andreas ^a   Sonnenschein, Martin ^b   Aghayev, Emin ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Sonnenhof Spital AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial infarction; Postmortem cardiac imaging; Virtopsy; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION AGE; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STAINING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AUTOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 33749486269     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl255     Document Type: Article

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