Sodium MRI of the human heart at 7.0T: Preliminary results

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 967-975

  Graessl, Andreas ^a   Ruehle, Anjuli ^a   Waiczies, Helmar ^b   Resetar, Ana ^c   Hoffmann, Stefan H ^c   Rieger, Jan ^b   Wetterling, Friedrich ^d   Winter, Lukas ^a   Nagel, Armin M ^c   Niendorf, Thoralf ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MRI TOOLS GMBH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular MRI; MRI; RF coil technology; Sodium imaging; Transceiver array; Ultrahigh field MR

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SODIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRANSCEIVERS;

CARDIOVASCULAR MRIS; GATED RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; RF COIL; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSCEIVER ARRAY; ULTRAHIGH-FIELD MR;

HEART;

SODIUM 23; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADULT; CARDIAC MUSCLE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM; SODIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 84937252689     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3338     Document Type: Article

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