Cine cardiac imaging using black-blood steady-state free precession (BB-SSFP) at 3T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-103

  Basha, Tamer A ^a   Ibrahim, El Sayed H ^b   Weiss, Robert G ^b,c   Osman, Nael F ^a,b,c,d  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood; Heart; SNR; SPGR; SSFP; STEAM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK BLOOD STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; BREATH HOLDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 67650077411     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21813     Document Type: Article

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