Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0 T

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-104

  Fenchel, Michael ^a   Kramer, Ulrich ^a   Nael, Kambiz ^b   Miller, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Cardiac imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Parallel imaging; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 34447299660     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0b013e3180f617af     Document Type: Article

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