Real-time phase-contrast MRI of cardiovascular blood flow using undersampled radial fast low-angle shot and nonlinear inverse reconstruction

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 917-924

  Joseph, Arun A ^a   Merboldt, Klaus Dietmar ^a   Voit, Dirk ^a   Zhang, Shuo ^a   Uecker, Martin ^a   Lotz, Joachim ^b   Frahm, Jens ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular MRI; Flow imaging; Heart function; Nonlinear inverse reconstruction; Phase contrast imaging; Real time imaging

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING POLARITY; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC CYCLES; FLIP ANGLE; FLOW IMAGING; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HEART FUNCTION; IN-VIVO; LITERATURE DATA; NON LINEAR INVERSION; PEAK VELOCITIES; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; PHASE-CONTRAST; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; PHASE-SENSITIVE; RADIAL SPOKES; REALTIME IMAGING; SECTION THICKNESS; STROKE VOLUMES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VELOCITY PROFILES;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONLINEAR INVERSE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REAL TIME PHASE CONTRAST MRI; UNDERSAMPLED RADIAL FAST LOW ANGLE SHOT ACQUISITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84862330716     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1812     Document Type: Article

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