Optimized saturation pulse train for human first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging at 7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1450-1456

  Tao, Yuehui ^a   Hess, Aaron T ^a   Keith, Graeme A ^a   Rodgers, Christopher T ^a   Liu, Alexander ^a   Francis, Jane M ^a   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Robson, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7T; B1 inhomogeneity; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; myocardial perfusion; radiofrequency pulse; saturation

Indexed keywords

SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SATURATION EFFICIENCIES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84925688610     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25262     Document Type: Article

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