Inversion recovery at 7 T in the human myocardium: Measurement of T 1, inversion efficiency and B1+

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1038-1046

  Rodgers, Christopher T ^a   Piechnik, Stefan K ^a   Delabarre, Lance J ^b   Van De Moortele, Pierre François ^b   Snyder, Carl J ^b   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Robson, Matthew D ^a   Vaughan, J Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; adiabatic pulses; inversion recovery; saturation correction; ShMOLLI

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIZATION;

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ADIABATIC PULSE; CARDIOVASCULAR MRIS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INVERSION RECOVERY; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; SHMOLLI; TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS;

RECOVERY;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVERSION RECOVERY; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

7 T; ADIABATIC PULSES; CARDIAC LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME T1; INVERSION RECOVERY; SATURATION CORRECTION; SHMOLLI;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84885289681     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24548     Document Type: Article

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