MR myocardial perfusion imaging

Radiology

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 701-715

  Coelho Filho, Otavio R ^a   Rickers, Carsten ^b   Kwong, Raymond Y ^a   Jerosch Herold, Michael ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ACCELERATION; ANATOMY; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROANGIOPATHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REST; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING;

EID: 84874319191     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12110918     Document Type: Review

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