Myocardial perfusion imaging with Gadobutrol: A comparison between 3 and 1.5 Tesla with an identical sequence design

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 499-506

  Theisen, Daniel ^a   Wintersperger, Bernd J ^a   Huber, Armin ^a   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Schönberg, Stefan O ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Cardiac imaging; CER; High field; Myocardial perfusion; SNR

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 34250784174     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3180339981     Document Type: Article

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