Direct measurement of aortic regurgitation with phase-contrast magnetic resonance is inaccurate: proposal of an alternative method of quantification

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1358-1369

  Iwamoto, Yoichi ^a   Inage, Akio ^a   Tomlinson, George ^b   Lee, Kyong Jin ^a   Grosse Wortmann, Lars ^a   Seed, Mike ^a   Wan, Andrea ^a   Yoo, Shi Joon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Children; Flow quantification; Heart; Phase contrast magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTIFACT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ARTIFACTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84931837556     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-014-3017-x     Document Type: Article

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