Erschienen in:
06.02.2018 | Editorial
Advances in cardiovascular MR imaging
verfasst von:
Tim Leiner, Gustav Strijkers
Erschienen in:
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Excerpt
Despite advances in prevention and treatment, cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death worldwide [
1]. Cardiovascular MR Imaging has become an indispensable tool in modern clinical practice for the diagnosis and clinical follow-up of a variety of conditions affecting the heart and vascular system. The ability of MR imaging to non-invasively probe anatomy, function and tissue structure not only enables physicians to take a “virtual biopsy”, but it also enables quantitative evaluation of the cumulative effect of exposure to various risk factors. As such, cardiovascular MR imaging is a highly valuable diagnostic tool to derive a phenotypic signature of cardiovascular disease. …