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Dealing with Cardiac Motion: How Do We Image the Beating Heart?
Imaging the beating heart is a challenge for MR imaging. To capture an image of the heart that is unaffected by motion would require an image to be acquired in just a few tens of milliseconds. In Chap. 8 it wa...
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Fast Imaging: How Do We Speed Up the Image Acquisition?
Conventional imaging techniques acquire only one phase encoding step (one line of k-space) per heart beat. It therefore invariably takes several minutes to acquire an anatomical image dataset with conventional...
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Common Artifacts
Image aliasing occurs when the imaged subject is larger than the field of view in the phase encoding direction. Aliasing is a consequence of the phase encoding process: While the number of phase encoding steps...
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The CMR Report
A typical CMR study generates hundreds of images and consists of many different image types. Reporting a CMR study, therefore, requires a comprehensive and structured approach.
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What’s Inside the Magnet and Why?
The use of Magnetic Resonance (MR) in medicine involves the interaction of magnetic fields with biological tissue. For magnetic resonance imaging, (MRI), three types of magnetic field are used to generate imag...
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Special Pulse Sequences for Cardiac Imaging
Spin echo and Gradient echo pulse sequences form the basis for all the advanced pulse sequences that are used in cardiac applications. For most cardiac synchronized applications, the “Fast” or “turbo” variant ...
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Components of CMR Protocols
CMR protocols are made up of a number of core components, carefully selected to highlight and/or differentiate specific pathological features. CMR therefore allows a multiparametric approach to cardiovascular ...
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Cardiomyopathies
In 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined five classes of cardiomyopathies: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), restrictive cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricu...
