Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 361-369 , March 2008

Concepts for Visualization of Multidirectional Phase-contrast MRI of the Heart and Large Thoracic Vessels

Parts of the data were presented at CARS 2006 in Osaka, Japan.

  • Roland Unterhinninghofen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: R.U.
    • ,
  • Sebastian Ley

      Affiliations

    • Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Julia Ley-Zaporozhan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Mainz, Mainz, Germany
    • ,
  • Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk

      Affiliations

    • Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Michael Bock

      Affiliations

    • Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

      Affiliations

    • Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Gábor Szabó

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
    • ,
  • Rüdiger Dillmann

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

Received 19 January 2007 ,Accepted 21 November 2007.

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PII: S1076-6332(07)00689-7

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.11.012

Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 361-369 , March 2008

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