Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

4th International Symposium Magnetic Resonance in Cardiovascular Research September 24–26, 1998, Würzburg, Germany

Stefan Neubauer

Basic pulse sequences for fast cardiac MR imaging

Peter M. Jakob, Axel Haase

Cardiac anatomy, mass and function—great vessels

Werner Kenn

Myocardial tagging for the analysis left ventricular function

Eike Nagel, Matthias Stuber, E. Fleck, Peter Boesiger, Otto M. Hess

MR coronary angiography—basic methodology and current status

Jörn Sandstede

Coronary artery and bypass flow measurement—basic methodology and current status

Thomas Voigtländer

MR-perfusion measurements: Basic methodology and current status

Karl-Heinz Hiller, M. Bock, C. M. Wacker, L. R. Schad, C. Waller, A. Haase, G. van Kaick, G. Ertl, W. R. Bauer

Experimental spectroscopy General methodology and applications for31P

Michael Horn

13C-MR spectroscopy—how and why?

Ulrich K. M. Decking

Cation MR spectroscopy (7Li,23Na,39K and87Rb)

Kieran Clarke, Heather R. Cross, Claudia A. Keon, George K. Radda, Joanne S. Ingwall

Cardiac1H-MR spectroscopy

Markus von Kienlin

MR spectroscopy of transgenic mice

Matthias Spindler, Kurt W. Saupe, Joanne S. Ingwall

Human cardiac NMR spectroscopy—basic pulse sequences, signal processing and hardware requirements

Martin Meininger

Human cardiac MR spectroscopy—clinical methods and applications

Meinrad Beer, Dietbert Hahn, Stefan Neubauer

Creatine kinase: An enzyme with a central role in cellular energy metabolism

Theo Wallimann, Max Dolder, Uwe Schlattner, Michael Eder, Thorsten Hornemann, Terry Kraft, Martin Stolz

Creatine kinase knockout mice—what is the phenotype: Heart

Joanne S. Ingwall

Creatine kinase knockout mice—what is the phenotype: skeletal muscle

H. J. A. in’t Zandt, B. Wieringa, Aarnt Heerschap

Mathematical model of energy transfer in hearts with inhibited or ablated creatine kinase system

Valdur Saks, Mayis Aliev, Pierre Dos Santos, Marko Vendelin, Olav Kongas

Manipulating creatine levels post-myocardial infarction—chronic effects on left ventricular remodeling

Stefan Neubauer, Michael Horn, Klaus Schnackerz

Energetic basis of diastolic dysfunction

Rong Tian

13C-NMR for the study of intermediary metabolism

Robert G. Weiss

Does local coronary flow control metabolic flux rates? A13C-NMR study

Ulrich K. M. Decking, Stefan Skwirba, Marc F. Zimmerman, B. Preckel, R. Loncar, V. Thamer, A. Deussen, J. Schrader

Atherosclerotic plaque assessment by NMR

Jean-François Toussaint

Imaging modalities for detection of myocardial viability

Richard Underwood

Assessment of myocardial viability with MR—the Cologne perspective

Frank M. Baer, Peter Theissen, Josef Crnac, Matthias Schmidt

Assessment of myocardial viability with MR—the Würzburg perspective

Jörn Sandstede, Meinrad Beer, Martin Meininger, Gerald Bertsch, Edgar Werner, Thomas Pabst, Werner Kenn, Stefan Neubauer, Markus von Kienlin, Dietbert Hahn

Regional myocardial function with tissue phase mapping

Jürgen Hennig, M. Markl, B. Schneider, S. Peschl

MR measurement of myocardial perfusion

Norbert Wilke

Myocardial perfusion and capillary blood volume during left ventricular remodelling

Wolfgang Bauer, Christiane Waller, Elke Kahler, Karl-Heinz Hiller, Kai Hu, Axel Haase, Georg Ertl

MR studies of left ventricular remodeling

Peter T. Buser

Growth hormone therapy in dilated cardiomyopathy monitored with MRI

Matthias G. Friedrich, Oliver Strohm, Karl-Josef Osterziel, Rainer Dietz

Concentration of human cardiac31P-metabolites determined by SLOOP31P-MRS

W. Landschütz, M. Meininger, M. Beer, T. Seyfarth, M. Horn, T. Pabst, A. Haase, D. Hahn, S. Neubauer, M. von Kienlin

Human cardiac spectroscopy

Paul A. Bottomley, Robert G. Weiss

Detection of monoester signals in human myocardium by31P-MRS

Stefan Widmaier, Wulf-Ingo Jung, Ludger Sieverding, Johannes Breuer, Oliver Schmidt, Gunther J. Dietze, Otto Lutz

In vivo1H-MR spectroscopy of the human heart

Roland Kreis, Jacques Felblinger, Bruno Jung, Chris Boesch

Functional and metabolic evaluation of the hypertrophied heart using MRI and31P-MRS

Hildo J. Lamb, A. van der Laarse, B. M. Pluim, H. P. Beyerbacht, J. Doornbos, E. E. van der Wall, A. de Roos

31P-MR spectroscopy in human end-stage heart failure during therapy with recombinant human growth hormone

Thomas Wittlinger, Thomas Voigtländer, Karl Friedrich Kreitner, Peter Kalden, Sabine Genth-Zotz, Harald Darius, Martin Thelen, Jürgen Meyer

Fatty acids, ischaemic damage and the diabetic heart

Linda M. King, Robert J. Sidell, Barnaby E. Jones, George K. Radda, Kieran Clarke

Ionic and metabolic imbalance in various conditions of ischemia-reperfusion: A31P- and23Na-NMR study

M. Bernard, H. El Banani, P. J. Cozzone, D. Feuvray

Glycolytic ATP production is not essential for Na+-K+ ATPase function and contractile recovery during postischemic reperfusion in isolated rat hearts

Jan G. van Emous, Carmen L. A. M. Lankamp, Tom J. C. Ruigrok, Cees J. A. van Echteld

Myocardial Na+ content after infarction during scar development

Michael Horn, Claudia Weidensteiner, Titus Lanz, Stefan Neubauer, Markus von Kienlin

MR coronary angiography—fact or fiction?

Albert C. van Rossum

Coronary flow measurements for evaluation of patients after stent implantation

Eike Nagel, Jürgen Hug, Semihan Bünger, Axel Bornstedt, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Ernst Wellnhofer, Christoph Klein, Thomas Thouet, Simon Schalla, Eckart Fleck

High-resolution MR imaging in mice

Frank Wiesmann, Jan Ruff, Axel Haase

MR as a diagnostic tool in heart disease: What is the future?

Dudley Pennell

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