Open AccessNative T 1 Mapping for Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Reza Nezafat
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.07.003
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac magnetic resonance , gadolinium , myocardial fibrosis , cardiology , myocardial infarction , gold standard (test) , magnetic resonance imaging , fibrosis , cardiomyopathy , radiology , heart failure , materials science , metallurgy
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) [(1)][1] is the current clinical gold standard modality for evaluation of focal fibrosis and scar in patients with an ischemic or a nonischemic cardiomyopathy. LGE requires administration of an exogenous gadolinium-based contrast
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