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Clinical Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cardiovascular system uses the same physical principles as MRI of other organs and has the same potential advantages, such as excellent image resolution and contrast and flexible choice of imaging planes; however, it has the added complication of the motion associated with the cardiac and respiratory cycles. With suitable compensation for the physiologic motion, however, MRI can create a wide range of different kinds of images, which can provide information on many aspects of both structure and function of the cardiovascular system.

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Adam Schwartz helped with the selection and preparation of images for the figures.

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  1. NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, Departments of Radiology, Medicine, and Neuroscience and Physiology, New York, NY, USA

    Leon Axel

  2. NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, Department of Radiology, New York, NY, USA

    Madalina Alexandra Toms

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Raymond Y. Kwong

  2. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Michael Jerosch-Herold

  3. Department of Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Bobak Heydari

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Axel, L., Toms, M.A. (2019). Clinical Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques. In: Kwong, R., Jerosch-Herold, M., Heydari, B. (eds) Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Contemporary Cardiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8841-9_2

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