Cardiovascular magnetic resonance at 3.0T: Current state of the art

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Oshinski, John N ^a,b   Delfino, Jana G ^a   Sharma, Puneet ^a   Gharib, Ahmed M ^c   Pettigrew, Roderic I ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM CHELATE; WATER; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LATE GADOLINIUM ENHANCEMENT IMAGING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; THREE TESLA CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 79952112320     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-12-55     Document Type: Article

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