Assessment of left atrial volumes at 1.5 Tesla and 3 Tesla using FLASH and SSFP cine imaging

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 673-679

  Hudsmith, L E ^a   Cheng, A S H ^a   Tyler, D J ^a,b   Shirodaria, C ^a   Lee, J ^a   Petersen, S E ^a   Francis, J M ^b   Clarke, Kieran ^b   Robson, M D ^a   Neubauer, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Biplane are length method; Fast low angle shot; Left atrium; Steady state free precession

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CARDIAC VOLUME; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34250760233     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10976640601138805     Document Type: Article

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