Two-dimensional radial sodium heart MRI using variable-rate selective excitation and retrospective electrocardiogram gating with golden angle increments

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 791-799

  Konstandin, Simon ^a   Schad, Lothar R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fermi; relaxation times; sodium contrasts; sodium heart imaging; time optimal VERSE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SODIUM;

FERMI; HEART IMAGING; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RELAXATION TIMES; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO GAINS; TIME-OPTIMAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MOVEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RIB CARTILAGE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SODIUM;

EID: 84883219522     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24523     Document Type: Article

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