Echo-Planar Imaging of the Heart

摘要: The initial exploratory studies into the potential use of echo-planar imaging (EPI) to study heart were carried out by pioneers technique, Mansfield and his group at University Nottingham. As early as 1982 Ordidge colleagues [63] first demonstrated method “freezing” motion while thorax a rabbit. work was field strength 0.094 T, acquiring 32×32 data matrix in 32 ms, could be seen with varying signals from blood cardiac chambers different times cycle. Only one year later clinical findings reported using same technique investigate three young infants cardiothoracic diseases [72]. Further development system allowed more detailed enabling rapid assessment congenital disease [8, 9].