Extrinsic multiecho phase-contrast SSFP: evaluation on cardiac output measurements

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-392

  Rolf, Marijn P ^a   Hofman, Mark B M ^a   Kuijer, Joost P A ^a   Pai, Vinay M ^b   Greiser, Andreas ^c   van Rossum, Albert C ^a   Heethaar, Rob M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Flow quantification; MRI; Multiecho; Phase contrast; SSFP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIECHO PHASE CONTRAST STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61649128785     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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