With mounting data on its accuracy and prognostic value, cardiovascular magnetic
resonance (CMR) is becoming an increasingly important diagnostic tool with growing utility …

A healthy, functional microcirculation in combination with nonobstructed epicardial coronary
arteries is the prerequisite of normal myocardial perfusion. Quantitative assessment in …

With mounting data on its accuracy and prognostic value, cardiovascular magnetic
resonance (CMR) is becoming an increasingly important diagnostic tool with growing utility …

Background Quantification of myocardial blood flow requires knowledge of the amount of
contrast agent in the myocardial tissue and the arterial input function (AIF) driving the …

The multitude of applications offered by CMR make it an increasing popular modality to
study the heart and the surrounding vessels. Nevertheless the anatomical complexity of the …

Aim Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of stress perfusion cardiovascular magnetic
resonance for the diagnosis of significant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) through …

Coronary artery disease is currently a worldwide epidemic with increasing impact on
healthcare systems. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences give complementary …

Background—Magnetic resonance myocardial perfusion imaging (MRMPI) has a number of
advantages over the other noninvasive tests used to detect reversible myocardial ischemia …

The potential of contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for a
quantitative assessment of myocardial perfusion has been explored for more than a decade …

Noninvasive assessment of myocardial perfusion is im-portant in the diagnosis and risk
stratification of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Although …