Cardiac function by MRI in congenital heart disease: Impact of consensus training on interinstitutional variance

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 956-966

  Beerbaum, Philipp ^a   Barth, Peter ^b   Kropf, Siegfried ^c   Sarikouch, Samir ^d   Kelter Kloepping, Andrea ^d   Franke, Diana ^e   Gutberlet, Matthias ^f   Kuehne, Titus ^e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competence network; Congenital heart disease; Interinstitutional variance; MRI; Reproducibility; Right ventricle; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INTERINSTITUTIONAL VARIANCE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT;

EID: 70350456274     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21948     Document Type: Article

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