Technical advances towards a comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance examination for diagnosis of coronary artery disease

Author

Fischer, S.E. ; Wickline, S.A. ; de Boer, R. ; Johansson, L.O.M. ; Lorenz, C.H.

Author_Institution

Center for Cardiovascular MR, Barnes-Jewish Hosp., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

474

Abstract

Currently, the diagnosis of coronary artery disease is a long, expensive and sometimes invasive process consisting of numerous tests and may include catheterization and hospitalization of patients. The noninvasive nature of a magnetic resonance examination combined with excellent soft tissue contrast and ability to measure functional parameters may establish this modality as the key diagnostic tool for the assessment of coronary artery disease in the future

Keywords

biomedical MRI; blood flow measurement; blood vessels; cardiovascular system; diseases; haemorheology; image segmentation; medical image processing; motion estimation; reviews; blood flow acquisition; cardiac MRI; cine MRI; coronary artery disease diagnosis; functional parameters; interactive scan planning; motion tracking; myocardial perfusion; myocardial tagging; noninvasive MRI; post-processing; real-time imaging; soft tissue contrast; Angiography; Arteries; Biomedical imaging; Coronary arteriosclerosis; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical tests; Stress; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.745950

Filename

745950