Contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 3.0 t: Comparison with steady-state free precession technique at 1.5 T

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 663-668

  Liu, Xin ^a   Bi, Xiaoming ^b   Huang, Jie ^a   Jerecic, Renate ^b   Carr, James ^a   Li, Debiao ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Coronary arteries; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GADOBENIC ACID; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55249113497     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31817ed1ff     Document Type: Article

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