André J. Duerinckx, MD, PhD Chief of Radiology Service, VA North Texas Healthcare System, and Professor of Radiology and Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Editor Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography With 417 Figures With a Foreword by Arthur E. Stillman André J. Duerinckx, MD, PhD Chief of Radiology Service VA North Texas Healthcare System Dallas, TX 75216, USA and Professor of Radiology and Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX 75235, USA e-mail: andré
[email protected] Cover illustration: Chapter 9, Figures 3c and 3e. Reprinted from Duerinckx AJ, Shaaban A, Lewis A, Perloff J, Laks H. 3D MR imaging of coronary arteriovenous fistulas. European Radiology 2000;10(9): 1459–1963. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coronary magnetic resonance angiography / editor, André J. Duerinckx. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-387-94959-3 (hardcover : alk. paper). 1. Coronary magnetic resonance angiography. 2. Angiocardiography. I. Duerinckx, André J. RC683.5.M35 C67 2000 616.1 207548—dc21 99-053567 Printed on acid-free paper. © 2002 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that m