High field strength coronary MRA-ready for prime time?

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 676-678

  Nezafat, Reza ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73949120237     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2009.184     Document Type: Short Survey

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