Myocardial infarct sizing by late gadolinium-enhanced MRI: Comparison of manual, full-width at half-maximum, and n-standard deviation methods

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1206-1217

  Zhang, Lin ^a,b   Huttin, Olivier ^c   Marie, Pierre Yves ^b,c,d   Felblinger, Jacques ^a,b,c,d   Beaumont, Marine ^a,d   Chillou, Christian D E ^a,b,c   Girerd, Nicolas ^b,c,d   Mandry, Damien ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

full width at half maximum, FWHM; late gadolinium enhancement, LGE; myocardial infarct sizing; n standard deviation, n SD

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; LATE GADOLINIUM ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; ALGORITHM; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84964319860     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25285     Document Type: Article

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