Non-invasive cardiac evaluation in heart failure patients using magnetic resonance imaging: a feasibility studyStephanie M Shors
Department of Radiology, Division of Cardiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 251 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL, 60611 3864, USA
Heart Fail Rev 10:265-73. 2005
..To assess the feasibility of a fast, flow-insensitive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol in heart failure patients for the evaluation of cardiac function, cardiovascular anatomy, and myocardial viability...
Best cases from the AFIP: myxopapillary ependymoma of the sacrumStephanie M Shors
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and the Department of Pathology, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Radiographics 26:S111-6. 2006
Left ventricular mass: manual and automatic segmentation of true FISP and FLASH cine MR images in dogs and pigsChristopher J Francois
Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill, USA
Radiology 230:389-95. 2004
..To evaluate the accuracy of manually and automatically segmented true fast imaging with steady-state precession (FISP) and fast low-angle shot (FLASH) cine magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the determination of left ventricular (LV) mass...
Heart failure: evaluation of cardiopulmonary transit times with time-resolved MR angiographyStephanie M Shors
Department of Radiology, Division of Cardiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA
Radiology 229:743-8. 2003
..CONCLUSION: Time-resolved MR angiography allows determination of cardiopulmonary transit times that are significantly prolonged in heart failure and correlate directly with LV volumes and inversely with LV ejection fraction...
Accurate quantification of right ventricular mass at MR imaging by using cine true fast imaging with steady-state precession: study in dogsStephanie M Shors
Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill, USA
Radiology 230:383-8. 2004
..1 g +/- 2.3 and a mean intraobserver variability of 0.2 g +/- 1.6 at every-section analysis. CONCLUSION: In this animal model, true FISP cine MR imaging enabled accurate quantification of RV mass...
Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the carotid and vertebrobasilar circulationsCarina W Yang
Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26:2095-101. 2005
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MRI: is there a role in obstetrics?John F Hibbeln
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Clin Obstet Gynecol 55:352-66. 2012
..Newer techniques established in the postnatal population such as spectroscopy, diffusion-weighted imaging, and functional imaging have future applications in the fetus...
Analysis of cardiopulmonary transit times at contrast material-enhanced MR imaging in patients with heart diseaseChristopher J Francois
Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill, USA
Radiology 227:447-52. 2003
..CONCLUSION: Transit times measured with MR imaging may help in discrimination between patients with and patients without heart disease, independently of other cardiac functional parameters...