Improved myocardial tagging contrast in cine balanced SSFP images

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1159-1167

  Ibrahim, El Sayed H ^a,d   Stuber, Matthias ^a,b   Schär, Michael ^b,c   Osman, Nael F ^a,b  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; CSPAMM tagging; SNR; SPGR; SSFP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPLEMENTARY SPATIAL MODULATION OF MAGNETIZATION TAGGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL TAGGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750436925     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20730     Document Type: Article

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