eprintid: 1263
rev_number: 13
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datestamp: 2012-04-18 12:49:49
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type: article
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creators_name: Dharmakumar, Rohan
creators_name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
creators_name: Li, Debiao
creators_id: 
creators_id: sotirios.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it
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title: Myocardial Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Balanced Steady-State Free Precession Imaging Approaches
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: RC
subjects: TK
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: BOLD, cardiac, SSFP, blood, oxygen, ischemic heart disease.
abstract: The current state of myocardial Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) MRI with balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) approaches is reviewed. Initial studies forming the basis for SSFP-based detection of oxygenation changes beginning with whole blood studies, progressing through controlled studies that consider microcirculatory changes in oxygenation in skeletal muscle and kidney, culminating in basic myocardial studies are outlined. The theoretical basis to observe signal changes and the mechanisms that facilitate such observations are elucidated. Methods to overcome limitations in sensitivity are described.
date: 2012-03
date_type: published
publication: The Open Medical Imaging Journal 
volume: 6
number: Suppl
publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
pagerange: 31-38
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1874-3471
official_url: http://benthamscience.com/open/tomij/articles/V006/SI0012TOMIJ/31TOMIJ.pdf
citation:   Dharmakumar, Rohan and Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Li, Debiao  Myocardial Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Balanced Steady-State Free Precession Imaging Approaches.  The Open Medical Imaging Journal , 6 (Suppl).  pp. 31-38.  ISSN 1874-3471      (2012)