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Influence of contrast agent dispersion on bolus-based MRI myocardial perfusion measurements: A computational fluid dynamics study.

Johannes MartensSabine PanzerJeroen van den WijngaardMaria SiebesLaura M Schreiber
Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2019)
Contrast agent dispersion is dependent on a complex interplay of several different factors characterizing the cardiovascular bed, including vessel size and integrated vascular length. Quantification errors evoked by the observed CA dispersion show nonnegligible distortion in dynamic CA bolus-based perfusion measurements. We expect future improvements of quantitative perfusion measurements to make the systematic errors described here more apparent.
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