Quantitative Assessment of Perfusion - Where Are We Now?

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Sammut, Eva ^a   Zarinabad, Niloufar ^a   Vianello, Pier Filippo ^a,b   Chiribiri, Amedeo ^a,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gadolinium; Heart; Ischaemia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion; Quantification

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DECONVOLUTION;

EID: 84903215627     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-014-9278-9     Document Type: Review

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