Optimal flip angle for high contrast balanced SSFP cardiac cine imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1095-1103

  Srinivasan, Subashini ^a,b   Ennis, Daniel B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP); Cardiac cine imaging; Maximum blood myocardium contrast; Optimal flip angle

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; HEART;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; EJECTION FRACTION; FLIP ANGLE; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MAXIMUM BLOOD-MYOCARDIUM CONTRAST; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTIMAL FLIP ANGLE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TREND STUDY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923174893     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25228     Document Type: Article

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