Quantitative cardiac 31P spectroscopy at 3 Tesla using adiabatic pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 785-795

  El Sharkawy, AbdEl Monem ^a,b   Schar, Michael ^a,c   Ouwerkerk, Ronald ^a   Weiss, Robert G ^a   Bottomley, Paul A ^a,b  

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

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Adiabatic pulses; Human heart; Human muscle; Metabolism; Phosphorus M.R.S.; Spin lattice relaxation (T1)

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MUSCLE; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

3 TESLA; ADIABATIC HALF-PASSAGE PULSE; ADIABATIC PULSE; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; HUMAN HEART; HUMAN MUSCLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIES (MRS); RADIO FREQUENCY POWER;

HEART;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PULSE RATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM; ADULT; ALGORITHM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHOSPHOCREATINE; PHOSPHORUS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 66249097363     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21867     Document Type: Article

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