Aims In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a transmural gradient of myocardial
perfusion has been repeatedly observed, with the subendocardial layer showing more …

BACKGROUND Induction of general anaesthesia has many potential triggers for peri-
operative myocardial ischaemia including the acute disturbance of blood gases that …

Objectives To explore the relationships between oxygenation signal intensity (SI) with
myocardial inflammation and regional left ventricular (LV) remodeling in reperfused acute …

Background Stress myocardial perfusion imaging is a noninvasive alternative to invasive
fractional flow reserve for evaluating haemodynamically significant coronary artery disease …

Background: Patients with myocardial bridging (MB) are associated with adverse
cardiovascular events, but a decision to perform surgical intervention, especially for patients …

Background Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of
coronary artery disease (CAD). Stress Cardiac magnetic resonance (SCMR) has been …

传统的心脏磁共振检查需借助外源性对比剂才能评价心肌血供和代谢. 血氧水平依赖磁共振成像
技术(blood oxygen level dependent magnetic resonance, BOLD-MR) 可不依赖对比剂 …

A method and system for processing imaging data of a tissue in an individual following a
change in oxygenation or blood flow in tissue, for assessing tissue function. Test images are …

Dr Matthias G. Friedrich is a full professor of medicine in the Departments of Medicine and
Diagnostic Radiology and the chief of cardiovascular imaging of the McGill University Health …

Background: Among the novelties in the field of cardiovascular imaging, the construction of
quantitative maps in a fast and efficient way is one of the most interesting aspects of the …