7T clinical cardiovascular MR imaging: initial experience
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Background Recently, high-field 7T MR imaging was introduced. The higher field-strength has potential advantages, mainly related to increased signal-to-noise-ratio. One of the potentially exciting applications may be cardiovascular MR imaging. Cardiovascular MRI requires robust correction for heart motion, breathing motion and correction of field inhomogeneities. Therefore, cardiovascular imaging at high MR field strength has many challenges to be solved. Therefore, the purpose was to assess clinical feasibility of 7T cardiovascular MR imaging.
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