Regional right ventricular function and timing of contraction in healthy volunteers evaluated by strain-encoded MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1379-1385

  Hamdan, Ashraf ^a   Thouet, Thomas ^a   Sebastian, Kelle ^a   Paetsch, Ingo ^a   Gebker, Rolf ^a   Wellnhofer, Ernst ^a   Schnackenburg, Bernhard ^b   Fahmy, Ahmed S ^c   Osman, Nael F ^d   Fleck, Eckart ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 tesla; Right ventricle; SENC MRI; Strain; Timing of contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN ENCODED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SYSTOLE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 57049089985     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21526     Document Type: Article

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