Stress tagging for detection of coronary artery disease at 3 Tesla: Combined stress perfusion and stress tagging protocol
D Thomas, C Meyer, K Strach, M Hackenbroch, HH Schild, T Sommer · RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren · 2007 · Heft 03
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Purpose: While adenosine-stress perfusion imaging is a very sensitive technique for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD), its specificity is rather low. In contrary the use of standard adenosine-stress cine imaging lacks high sensitivity, but is very specific for detection of CAD. Detection of wall motion abnormalities (WMAs) can be improved by the use of myocardial tagging techniques. Both, myocardial perfusion imaging and myocardial tagging benefit from high field strength due to increased CNR, SNR as well as improved tag persistence and tag definition, allowing for high image resolution and combinat…
