Free breathing 2D multi-slice real-time gradient-echo cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: Impact on left ventricular function measurements compared with standard multi-breath hold 2D steady-state free precession imaging

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-497

  Sievers, Burkhard ^a,b   Schrader, Sebastian ^b   Hunold, Peter ^c   Barkhausen, Joerg ^c   Erbel, Raimund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated contour detection; Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging; Fast imaging; Real time imaging; Steady state free precession imaging (SSFP); Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80052005011     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.66.4.2126598     Document Type: Article

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