Contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 3 t using interleaved echo planar imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 458-464

  Bhat, Himanshu ^a   Yang, Qi ^b   Zuehlsdorff, Sven ^c   Li, Kuncheng ^b   Li, Debiao ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 T; Coronary arteries; Interleaved EPI; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954761189     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181d8df32     Document Type: Article

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