Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography

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Recent scientific progress in the development of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques has inspired increasing interest in the noninvasive diagnosis of cardiovascular diseaseby MRI, including coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). For practitioners who do not yet use cardiac MRI on a daily basis, These techniques can seem foreign and complex. Coronary Maganetic Angiography demystifies coronary MRA for the clinician, using plain language to translate physics into clinical application and bridge the distinct fields of radiology and cardiology. This book also introduces and explains complex coronary anatomy and a variety if clinical applications to the MR physicist. The most established and promising coronary MRA techniques are highlighted and reviewed to lead the novice step by step through the use of advanced coronary MRA pulse sequences and strategies.The book is organized into three comprehensive sections — Clinical Applications, Techniques, and Alternatives — to present the following features: - Clinical applications: congenital variants, stent patency, and grafs - Future applications: lesion detection and vessel wall characterization - Techniques: first-, second- and third-generation techniques - Patient perception of techniques: breathholding versus free-breathing - Newest techniques and contrast agents for coronary MRAEvery clinician and MR physicist taking advantage of these up-and-coming techniques will find Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography an essential and intrusive reference.

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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 616.1207548—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
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