Towards elimination of the dark-rim artifact in first-pass myocardial perfusion MRI: Removing gibbs ringing effects using optimized radial imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 124-136

  Sharif, Behzad ^a   Dharmakumar, Rohan ^a   Labounty, Troy ^a,b   Arsanjani, Reza ^a   Shufelt, Chrisandra ^a   Thomson, Louise ^a   Bairey Merz, C Noel ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Li, Debiao ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

dark rim artifact; first pass perfusion MRI; Gibbs ringing; myocardial perfusion; radial sampling; subendocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS;

DARK-RIM ARTIFACT; GIBBS RINGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; PERFUSION MRI; RADIAL SAMPLING; SUBENDOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

GADOVERSETAMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; CARDIAC MUSCLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROCEDURES;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902543851     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24913     Document Type: Article

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