Feasibility of functional cardiac MR imaging in mice using a clinical 3 tesla whole body scanner

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 749-756

  Bunck, Alexander C ^a   Engelen, Markus A ^b   Schnackenburg, Bernhard ^c   Furkert, Juliane ^a   Bremer, Christoph ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Stypmann, Jörg ^b   Maintz, David ^a  

^a Departments of Clinical Radiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Animal imaging; Cardiac MRI; Echocardiography; Heart

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 73349126447     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181b2c135     Document Type: Article

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