Cardiac cine imaging with a short repetition time and high contrast between the blood and the myocardium
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| Filing date | May 21, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 13, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 21, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/56308
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A segmented cine MR pulse sequence of the “TrueFISP”-type having a short repetition time TR is used to acquire MR data during a single breath hold. In the resulting cine images, the blood and the myocardium have distinctly different image contrasts.
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