Coronary MRI. More Pretty Pictures or Present-Day Value?**Editorials published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC or the American College of Cardiology.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1951-1952

  Hauser, Thomas H ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a,b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BREATHING; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZING RADIATION; ISCHEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; X RAY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750961379     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.09.001     Document Type: Editorial

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