Cardiac MRI in mice at 9.4 tesla with a transmit-receive surface coil and a cardiac-tailored intensity-correction algorithm

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-287

  Sosnovik, David E ^a   Dai, Guangping ^a   Nahrendorf, Matthias ^a   Rosen, Bruce R ^a   Seethamraju, Ravi ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mouse; Sensitivity correction; Surface coil

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DANTE SEQUENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART VALVE; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY CORRECTION ALGORITHM; MOUSE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; TRABECULOTOMY; TRANSMIT RECEIVE SURFACE COIL TECHNOLOGY;

AGAR; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547867375     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20966     Document Type: Article

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