Saturation pulse design for quantitative myocardial T1 mapping

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chow, Kelvin ^a   Kellman, Peter ^b   Spottiswoode, Bruce S ^c   Nielles Vallespin, Sonia ^b   Arai, Andrew E ^b   Salerno, Michael ^d,e   Thompson, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; B0 inhomogeneity; B1 inhomogeneity; SASHA; Saturation pulses; Saturation recovery; T1 mapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SATURATION RECOVERY SINGLE SHOT ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE; SIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CARDIAC MUSCLE; DEVICES; HEART; IMAGING PHANTOM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE;

EID: 84942920239     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-015-0187-0     Document Type: Article

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