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Raymond Y. Kwong
Cardiology
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Heart disease is the leading cause of deaths in the United States. Every year approximately 735,000 Americans suffer a myocardial infarction (MI). Of these, 525,000 are a first MI, and 210,000 occur in people ...
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Assessment of Cardiomyopathies and Cardiac Transplantation
Combining the diagnostic capabilities of CMR in the assessment of cardiac structures, myocardial perfusion, and various tissue characterizing pulse sequence methods provides a novel interrogation of myocardial...
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Valvular Heart Disease Assessment by CMR
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has exceptional capability of performing comprehensive evaluation of simple and complex valvular heart disease. CMR has emerged as an alternative imaging modality withou...
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Contrast Agents in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful noninvasive cardiovascular imaging modality providing excellent soft tissue contrast. Tissue contrast can be further enhanced by the use of contrast agents, enhan...
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Comparison of T1 Map** by Cardiac MRI to Non-cardiac MRI Methods to Evaluate Cardiac Fibrosis
The detection of possible underlying myocardial fibrosis is a common indication for cardiac MRI. In recent years the development of late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI (LGE-CMR) and T1 and T2 map** techn...
