Measuring Treatment Effects in Clinical Trials Using Cardiac MRI

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-107

  de Waha, Suzanne ^a   Fuernau, Georg ^a   Eitel, Ingo ^a   Lurz, Philipp ^a   Desch, Steffen ^a   Schuler, Gerhard ^a   Thiele, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Clinical trials; Outcome measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051811029     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-011-9069-5     Document Type: Review

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