Whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 3 Tesla in 5 minutes with slow infusion of Gd-BOPTA, a high-relaxivity clinical contrast agent

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Bi, Xiaoming ^a,b   Carr, James C ^a   Li, Debiao ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Contrast media; Coronary arteries; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA ACQUISITION; HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; RESONANCE;

3 TESLA; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY ARTERIES; FREE BREATHING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PARALLEL DATA ACQUISITION; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 34547756536     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21224     Document Type: Article

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