Myocardial Tagging During Real-Time MRI

Abstract

The advent of high performance gradients and parallel imaging schemes has made real-time MRI a stable mode of scanning. Cardiac tagging techniques have been shown to give extremely precise and accurate estimates of the evaluation of myocardial function, We have implemented a real-time mode of MRI that allows myocardial tagging to be performed without breath-holds, or gating. This will make the quantitative evaluation of myocardial function simpler in those patients with arhythmias and those who cannot hold their breath.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA412601

Entities

People

  • Elliot R. Mcveigh
  • Fred Epstein

Organizations

  • National Institutes of Health

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Classification
  • Data Acquisition
  • Demonstrations
  • Heart
  • Military Research
  • Phased Arrays
  • Radio Frequency Pulses
  • Respiration
  • Segmented
  • Sequences
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Physics

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
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  • Medical Imaging.