The clinical utility of contrast enhanced whole-heart coronary MRA with 32-channel coil at 3T scanner in the era of 64 and more-slice CT
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Background Sixty-four and more-slice cardiac CT provides rapid and high quality coronary CT angiography for the majority of clinical needs of non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery. However, the recent advance of whole-heart coronary MRA has been able to provide high-quality of coronary MRA and also myocardial image in a reasonable scan time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical indication and the feasibility of coronary MRA with 32-channel coil at 3T scanner.
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