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Multi-center transferability of a breath-hold T2 technique for myocardial iron assessment

BACKGROUND: Cardiac iron overload is the leading cause of death in thalassemia major and is usually assessed using myocardial T2* measurements. Recently a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) breath-hold T2 sequence has been developed as a possible alternative. This cardiac T2 technique has good...

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Autores principales: He, Taigang, Kirk, Paul, Firmin, David N, Lam, Wynnie M, Chu, Winnie CW, Au, Wing-Yan, Chan, Godfrey CF, Tan, Ru San, Ng, Ivy, Biceroglu, Selen, Aydinok, Yesim, Fogel, Mark A, Cohen, Alan R, Pennell, Dudley J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2279115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18291040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-10-11