Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Heart

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Elgeti, Thomas ^a   Sack, Ingolf ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac MR elastography; Diastolic dysfunction; Heart; Myocardial shear modulus

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART CYCLE; HEART RHYTHM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

EID: 84893241644     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-013-9247-8     Document Type: Review

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