@inproceedings{eprints831,
          author = {Rohan Dharmakumar and Ioannis Koktzoglou and Sotirios A. Tsaftaris and Sven Zuehlsdorff and Richard Tang and Wright Graham and Debiao Li},
            year = {2009},
           title = {Visualization and tracking of a conventional guidewire with low flip angle SSFP imaging: an initial study},
       booktitle = {17th Meeting of the  international society for magnetic resonance in medicine},
        abstract = {Inductive coupling between signal reception coils and conventional guidewires in the presence of low flip-angle (LF) balanced SSFP (b-SSFP) imaging may permit the visualization of guidewires with positive contrast. To test our hypothesis, ex-vivo and in-vivo experiments were performed using a radio-opaque coronary guidewire and LF b-SSFP imaging. Our initial studies showed that it is possible to visualize and track a conventional guidewire with positive contrast using LF b-SSFP imaging within ex-vivo and in-vivo settings. These results lend support to the hypothesis that signal reception coils and passive guidewires may be inductively coupled in the presence of LF excitations.},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/831/}
}