True real-time cardiac MRI in free breathing without ECG synchronization using a novel sequence with radial k-space sampling and balanced SSFP contrast mode

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1059-1067

  Bauer, Ralf W ^a   Radtke, Isabel ^a   Block, Kai T ^b   Larson, Maya C ^a   Kerl, J Matthias ^a   Hammerstingl, Renate ^a   Graf, Thomas G ^c   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Zhang, Shuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Cardiac MRI; Radial sampling; Real time MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATION; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893649967     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0183-0     Document Type: Article

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