Quantification of MRI measured myocardial perfusion reserve in healthy humans: A comparison with positron emission tomography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 818-824

  Fritz Hansen, Thomas ^a   Hove, Jens D ^b   Kofoed, Klaus F ^b   Kelbaek, Henning ^b   Larsson, Henrik B W ^c  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial perfusion; PET; Quantitative modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

AGED; AMMONIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PENTETIC ACID; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41949111859     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21306     Document Type: Article

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