Abstract
Purpose Whole-heart coronary MR angiography (MRA) allows for noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease without use of contrast medium or exposing the patients to radiation. However, lengthy imaging time (>10 minutes) and limited study success rate (<90%) are major limitations of whole-heart coronary MRA acquired with conventional cardiac coils. In the current study, whole heart coronary MR angiograms were acquired by using 32 channel cardiac coils and high SENSE factor. The imaging time, study success rate, image quality score and diagnostic accuracy of whole heart coronary MRA were evaluated in patients with suspected coronary artery disease.
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Motonori Nagata*, Hajime Sakuma, Nanaka Ishida, Tairo Kurita, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yoko Mikami, Katsuya Onishi, Masaki Ito and Kan Takeda
The imaging time, study success rate, image quality score and diagnostic accuracy of whole heart coronary MR angiography (MRA) were evaluated in patients with suspected coronary artery disease
We studied 32 patients with suspected coronary artery disease who were scheduled for elective X-ray coronary angiography
Summary
Motonori Nagata*, Hajime Sakuma, Nanaka Ishida, Tairo Kurita, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yoko Mikami, Katsuya Onishi, Masaki Ito and Kan Takeda. Address: Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Mie, Japan * Corresponding author from 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions Los Angeles, CA, USA. Abstracts of the 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2008 Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1532-429X-10-S1-info.pdf . Whole-heart coronary MR angiography (MRA) allows for noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease without use of contrast medium or exposing the patients to radiation. Lengthy imaging time (>10 minutes) and limited study success rate (
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