cardiac — Clinical MRI

The Diagnostic Challenges of Myocarditis: Importance of Bioimaging Signatures with Parametric Mapping

April 14, 2021 by Dr. Hafisyatul Aiza Zainal Abidin

Technical advances in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) enable both qualitative and quantitative assessment of myocardial inflammation non-invasively. [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Methods & Techniques, Clinical Updates
Tagged With: cardiac, CLINICAL IMAGING, CLINICAL UPDATES, heart, myocarditis, parametric mapping

Role of CMR in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathies

April 14, 2021 by Jeanette Schulz-Menger, M.D.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) plays a growing role in therapeutic decision-making as it allows differentiation of etiologies and provides prognostic information. [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Methods & Techniques, Clinical Updates
Tagged With: cardiac, Cardiomyopathy, CLINICAL IMAGING, CLINICAL UPDATES, heart

How to do Cardiac Single Voxel 1H Spectroscopy

April 14, 2021 by Morten Asp Vonsild Lund, M.D

Protocols for performing single voxel proton spectroscopy of the myocardium, with PRESS, are described for both 1.5 and 3 T. [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Methods & Techniques, Clinical Updates
Tagged With: cardiac, CLINICAL IMAGING, CLINICAL UPDATES, heart, myocardium, spectroscopy

MAGNETOM Skyra: The Mannheim Perspective

July 6, 2013 by Henrik Michaely, MD

For over one year the 3T MAGNETOM Skyra has been used for scientific projects and clinical imaging at the University Medical Center (UMM) Mannheim. The UMM Mannheim was the first site in the world to install the Skyra. [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Imaging, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: abdomen, cardiac, musculoskeletal system, renal

Compressed Sensing: A Great Opportunity to Shift the Paradigm of Cardiac MRI to Real-Time

July 6, 2013 by Michael O. Zenge, Ph.D.

Cardiac MRI is particularly well suited to benefit from a group of novel image reconstruction methods known as compressed sensing that promise to speed up data acquisition. This article provides a brief introduction to the topic. [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Imaging, heart, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: cardiac, compressed sensing