Cardiac MRI of the fetal heart using a novel triggering method: Initial results in an animal model

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1071-1076

  Yamamura, Jin ^a   Kopp, Inga ^a   Frisch, Michael ^a   Fischer, Roland ^b   Valett, Klaus ^c   Hecher, Kurt ^a   Adam, Gerhard ^a   Wedegärtner, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^c Positronic Systemtechnik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Fetal MRI; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; EWE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 84859798068     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23541     Document Type: Article

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