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  1. Authors: Pierre Monney, Davide Piccini, Tobias Rutz, Gabriella Vincenti, Simone Coppo, Simon C. Koestner, Nicole Sekarski, Stefano Di Bernardo, Judith Bouchardy, Matthias Stuber and Juerg Schwitter
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:88

    The original article was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:55

  2. Flow volume quantification in the great thoracic vessels is used in the assessment of several cardiovascular diseases. Clinically, it is often based on semi-automatic segmentation of a vessel throughout the ca...

    Authors: Mariana Bustamante, Sven Petersson, Jonatan Eriksson, Urban Alehagen, Petter Dyverfeldt, Carl-Johan Carlhäll and Tino Ebbers
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:87
  3. Pulse wave velocity (PWV), a measure of arterial stiffness, has been demonstrated to be an independent predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. This can be derived non-invasively using cardiovascular magn...

    Authors: Paul A. Roberts, Brett R. Cowan, Yingmin Liu, Aaron C. W. Lin, Poul M. F. Nielsen, Andrew J. Taberner, Ralph A. H. Stewart, Hoi Ieng Lam and Alistair A. Young
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:86
  4. Temporal patterns of coronary blood flow velocity can provide important information on disease state and are currently assessed invasively using a Doppler guidewire. A non-invasive alternative would be benefic...

    Authors: Jennifer Keegan, Claire E Raphael, Kim Parker, Robin M Simpson, Stephen Strain, Ranil de Silva, Carlo Di Mario, Julian Collinson, Rod H Stables, Ricardo Wage, Peter Drivas, Malindie Sugathapala, Sanjay K Prasad and David N Firmin
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:85
  5. Quantitative saturation-recovery based T1 mapping sequences are less sensitive to systematic errors than the Modified Look-Locker Inversion recovery (MOLLI) technique but require high performance saturation pulse...

    Authors: Kelvin Chow, Peter Kellman, Bruce S. Spottiswoode, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Andrew E. Arai, Michael Salerno and Richard B. Thompson
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:84
  6. Dual-channel transmit technology improves the image quality in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) at 3 T by reducing the degree of radiofrequency (RF) shading over the heart by using RF shimming. Further ...

    Authors: Wyger M. Brink, Johan S. van den Brink and Andrew G. Webb
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:82
  7. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has become a primary tool for non-invasive assessment of cardiovascular anatomy, pathology and function. Existing contrast agents have been utilised for the identificati...

    Authors: Shirjel R. Alam, Colin Stirrat, Jennifer Richards, Saeed Mirsadraee, Scott I. K. Semple, George Tse, Peter Henriksen and David E. Newby
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:83
  8. Pediatric pulmonary hypertension (PH) remains a disease with high morbidity and mortality in children. Understanding ventricular-vascular coupling, a measure of how well matched the ventricular and vascular fu...

    Authors: Uyen Truong, Sonali Patel, Vitaly Kheyfets, Jamie Dunning, Brian Fonseca, Alex J. Barker, Dunbar Ivy, Robin Shandas and Kendall Hunter
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:81
  9. Many of the structures and parameters that are detected, measured and reported in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) have at least some properties that are fractal, meaning complex and self-similar at dif...

    Authors: Gabriella Captur, Audrey L. Karperien, Chunming Li, Filip Zemrak, Catalina Tobon-Gomez, Xuexin Gao, David A. Bluemke, Perry M. Elliott, Steffen E. Petersen and James C. Moon
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:80
  10. Previous work indicates that dilatation of the pulmonary artery (PA) itself or in relation to the ascending aorta (PA:Ao ratio) predicts pulmonary hypertension (PH). Whether these results also apply for heart ...

    Authors: Gültekin Karakus, Andreas A. Kammerlander, Stefan Aschauer, Beatrice A. Marzluf, Caroline Zotter-Tufaro, Alina Bachmann, Aleks Degirmencioglu, Franz Duca, Jamil Babayev, Stefan Pfaffenberger, Diana Bonderman and Julia Mascherbauer
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:79
  11. The natural history of acute myocarditis (AM) remains highly variable and predictors of outcome are largely unknown. The objectives were to determine the potential value of various cardiovascular magnetic reso...

    Authors: Francesca Sanguineti, Philippe Garot, Melina Mana, Darach O’h-Ici, Thomas Hovasse, Thierry Unterseeh, Yves Louvard, Xavier Troussier, Marie-Claude Morice and Jérôme Garot
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:78
  12. T1-mapping using the Shortened Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery (ShMOLLI) technique enables non-invasive assessment of important myocardial tissue characteristics. However, tachyarrhythmia may cause mis...

    Authors: Vanessa M. Ferreira, Rohan S. Wijesurendra, Alexander Liu, Andreas Greiser, Barbara Casadei, Matthew D. Robson, Stefan Neubauer and Stefan K. Piechnik
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:77
  13. The Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology presenting as recurrent episodes of shock and peripheral edema due to leakage of fluid into soft tissues. Insights into SCLS p...

    Authors: Andrew Ertel, Drew Pratt, Peter Kellman, Steve Leung, Patricia Bandettini, Lauren M. Long, Michael Young, Celeste Nelson, Andrew E. Arai and Kirk M. Druey
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:76
  14. Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. There is evidence of impaired left ventricular (LV) function associated with obesity, which may relate to cardiovascular mortality, but some studies have re...

    Authors: Christopher M. Haggerty, Andrea C. Mattingly, Sage P. Kramer, Cassi M. Binkley, Linyuan Jing, Jonathan D. Suever, David K. Powell, Richard J. Charnigo, Frederick H. Epstein and Brandon K. Fornwalt
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:75
  15. Diffuse myocardial fibrosis (DMF) is important in cardiovascular disease, however until recently could only be assessed by invasive biopsy. We hypothesised that DMF measured by T1 mapping is elevated in isolat...

    Authors: Thomas A. Treibel, Filip Zemrak, Daniel M. Sado, Sanjay M. Banypersad, Steven K. White, Viviana Maestrini, Andrea Barison, Vimal Patel, Anna S. Herrey, Ceri Davies, Mark J. Caulfield, Steffen E. Petersen and James C. Moon
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:74
  16. Whether T1-mapping cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can accurately quantify the area-at-risk (AAR) as delineated by T2 mapping and assess myocardial salvage at 3T in reperfused ST-segment elevation myoc...

    Authors: Heerajnarain Bulluck, Steven K. White, Stefania Rosmini, Anish Bhuva, Thomas A. Treibel, Marianna Fontana, Amna Abdel-Gadir, Anna Herrey, Charlotte Manisty, Simon M. Y. Wan, Ashley Groves, Leon Menezes, James C. Moon and Derek J. Hausenloy
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:73
  17. Pulsatile blood flow through the cavities of the heart and great vessels is time-varying and multidirectional. Access to all regions, phases and directions of cardiovascular flows has formerly been limited. Fo...

    Authors: Petter Dyverfeldt, Malenka Bissell, Alex J. Barker, Ann F. Bolger, Carl-Johan Carlhäll, Tino Ebbers, Christopher J. Francios, Alex Frydrychowicz, Julia Geiger, Daniel Giese, Michael D. Hope, Philip J. Kilner, Sebastian Kozerke, Saul Myerson, Stefan Neubauer, Oliver Wieben…
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:72
  18. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) phase contrast imaging has undergone a wide range of changes with the development and availability of improved calibration procedures, vi...

    Authors: Krishna S. Nayak, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Matt A. Bernstein, Michael Markl, Peter D. Gatehouse, Rene M. Botnar, David Saloner, Christine Lorenz, Han Wen, Bob S. Hu, Frederick H. Epstein, John N. Oshinski and Subha V. Raman
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:71
  19. Phosphorus saturation transfer (ST) magnetic resonance spectroscopy can measure the rate of ATP generated from phosphocreatine (PCr) via creatine kinase (CK) in the human heart. Recently, the triple-repetition...

    Authors: Michael Schär, Refaat E. Gabr, AbdEl-Monem M. El-Sharkawy, Angela Steinberg, Paul A. Bottomley and Robert G. Weiss
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:70
  20. Assessment of longitudinal function with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is limited to measurement of systolic excursion of the mitral annulus (MAPSE) or elaborate strain imaging modalities. The aim of...

    Authors: Johannes H. Riffel, Florian Andre, Malte Maertens, Franziska Rost, Marius G. P. Keller, Sorin Giusca, Sebastian Seitz, Arnt V. Kristen, Matthias Müller, Evangelos Giannitsis, Grigorios Korosoglou, Hugo A. Katus and Sebastian J. Buss
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:69
  21. Myocardial fibrosis imaging using late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has been validated as a quantitative predictive marker for response to medical, surgical, and device therapy...

    Authors: John Stirrat, Sebastien Xavier Joncas, Michael Salerno, Maria Drangova and James White
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:66
  22. A comprehensive review is undertaken of the methods available for 3D whole-heart first-pass perfusion (FPP) and their application to date, with particular focus on possible acceleration techniques. Following a...

    Authors: Merlin J. Fair, Peter D. Gatehouse, Edward V. R. DiBella and David N. Firmin
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:68
  23. The aim of this study was the evaluation of a fast Gradient Spin Echo Technique (GraSE) for cardiac T2-mapping, combining a robust estimation of T2 relaxation times with short acquisition times. The sequence w...

    Authors: Bettina Baeßler, Frank Schaarschmidt, Christian Stehning, Bernhard Schnackenburg, David Maintz and Alexander C. Bunck
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:67
  24. Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), which substantially increases with arterial stiffness and aging, is a major predictor of cardiovascular mortality. It is commonly estimated using applanation tonometry at caro...

    Authors: Ioannis Bargiotas, Elie Mousseaux, Wen-Chung Yu, Bharath Ambale Venkatesh, Emilie Bollache, Alain de Cesare, Joao A.C. Lima, Alban Redheuil and Nadjia Kachenoura
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:65
  25. Sarcomeric gene mutations cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). In gene mutation carriers without left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (G + LVH-), subclinical imaging biomarkers are recognized as predictors of...

    Authors: Patricia Reant, Gabriella Captur, Mariana Mirabel, Arthur Nasis, Daniel M. Sado, Viviana Maestrini, Silvia Castelletti, Charlotte Manisty, Anna S. Herrey, Petros Syrris, Maite Tome-Esteban, Sharon Jenkins, Perry M. Elliott, William J. McKenna and James C. Moon
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:64
  26. High reproducibility of LV mass and volume measurement from cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been shown within single centers. However, the extent to which contours may vary from center to cent...

    Authors: Avan Suinesiaputra, David A. Bluemke, Brett R. Cowan, Matthias G. Friedrich, Christopher M. Kramer, Raymond Kwong, Sven Plein, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Jos J. M. Westenberg, Alistair A. Young and Eike Nagel
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:63
  27. Liver cirrhosis has been shown to affect cardiac performance. However cardiac dysfunction may only be revealed under stress conditions. The value of non-invasive stress tests in diagnosing cirrhotic cardiomyop...

    Authors: Francisco Sampaio, Pablo Lamata, Nuno Bettencourt, Sophie Charlotte Alt, Nuno Ferreira, Johannes Tammo Kowallick, Joana Pimenta, Shelby Kutty, José Fraga, Michael Steinmetz, Paulo Bettencourt, Vasco Gama and Andreas Schuster
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:61
  28. The left ventricular performance index (LVGFI) as a comprehensive marker of cardiac performance integrates LV structure with global function within one index. In a prospective cohort study of healthy individua...

    Authors: Ingo Eitel, J. Pöss, A. Jobs, C. Eitel, S. de Waha, J. Barkhausen, S. Desch and H. Thiele
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:62
  29. A key component of evaluating myocardial tissue function is the assessment of myofiber organization and structure. Studies suggest that striated muscle fibers are magnetically anisotropic, which, if measurable...

    Authors: Russell Dibb, Yi Qi and Chunlei Liu
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:60
  30. The CE-MARC study assessed the diagnostic performance investigated the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). The study used a multi-parametric...

    Authors: David P Ripley, Manish Motwani, Julia M. Brown, Jane Nixon, Colin C. Everett, Petra Bijsterveld, Neil Maredia, Sven Plein and John P. Greenwood
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:59
  31. Specifically we aim to demonstrate that the results of our earlier safety data hold true in this much larger multi-national and multi-ethnical population.

    Authors: O. Bruder, S. Schneider, G. Pilz, A.C. van Rossum, J. Schwitter, D. Nothnagel, M. Lombardi, S. Buss, A. Wagner, S. Petersen, S. Greulich, C. Jensen, E. Nagel, U. Sechtem and H. Mahrholdt
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:58
  32. Despite marked benefits in many heart failure patients, a considerable proportion of patients treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) fail to respond appropriately. Recently, a “U-shaped” (type II) w...

    Authors: Gregory R. Hartlage, Jonathan D. Suever, Stephanie Clement-Guinaudeau, Patrick T. Strickland, Nima Ghasemzadeh, R. Patrick Magrath III, Ankit Parikh, Stamatios Lerakis, Michael H. Hoskins, Angel R. Leon, Michael S. Lloyd and John N. Oshinski
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:57
  33. Myocardial ischemia is a major cause of death in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, which can be caused by either epicardial or microvascular coronary artery disease (CAD). Although renal transplantation i...

    Authors: Susie Parnham, Jonathan M. Gleadle, Darryl Leong, Suchi Grover, Craig Bradbrook, Richard J. Woodman, Carmine G. De Pasquale and Joseph B. Selvanayagam
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:56
  34. For free-breathing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), the self-navigation technique recently emerged, which is expected to deliver high-quality data with a high success rate. The purpose of this study wa...

    Authors: Pierre Monney, Davide Piccini, Tobias Rutz, Gabriella Vincenti, Simone Coppo, Simon C. Koestner, Nicole Sekarski, Stefano Di Bernardo, Judith Bouchardy, Matthias Stuber and Juerg Schwitter
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:55

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:88

  35. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an integral part in the diagnostic work-up of cardiac inflammatory diseases. In this context, superparamagnetic iron oxide-based contrast agents can provide additiona...

    Authors: Michael Bietenbeck, Anca Florian, Udo Sechtem and Ali Yilmaz
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:54
  36. To show that 3D sequences with ultra-short echo times (UTEs) can generate a positive contrast whatever the magnetic field (4.7, 7 or 9.4 T) and whatever Ultra Small Particles of Iron Oxide (USPIO) concentratio...

    Authors: Aurélien J. Trotier, William Lefrançois, Kris Van Renterghem, Jean-michel Franconi, Eric Thiaudière and Sylvain Miraux
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:53
  37. Left atrium (LA) strain, volume and function are important markers of cardiovascular disease and myocardial impairment. We aimed to assess the accuracy of LA biplane volume and function measured by Multimodali...

    Authors: Mytra Zareian, Luisa Ciuffo, Mohammadali Habibi, Anders Opdahl, Elzbieta H. Chamera, Colin O. Wu, David A. Bluemke, João A. C. Lima and Bharath Ambale Venkatesh
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:52
  38. The development of clinically applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models of the left heart is inherently challenging when using in vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data for validation, due to...

    Authors: Ikechukwu U. Okafor, Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Brandon D. Chaffins, Lucia Mirabella, John N. Oshinski and Ajit P. Yoganathan
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:51
  39. The relationship between pulmonary vein (PV) anatomy and successful catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) is poorly understood

    Authors: Thomas H. Hauser, Vidal Essebag, Ferdinando Baldessin, Seth McClennen, Susan B. Yeon, Warren J. Manning and Mark E. Josephson
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:49
  40. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) has wide applicability for non-invasive biochemical assessment in clinical and pre-clinical applications but suffers from long scan times. Compressed sensing (CS...

    Authors: Mahon L. Maguire, Sairam Geethanath, Craig A. Lygate, Vikram D. Kodibagkar and Jürgen E. Schneider
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:45
  41. To evaluate and quantify the impact of a novel image-based motion correction technique in myocardial T2 mapping in terms of measurement reproducibility and spatial variability.

    Authors: Sébastien Roujol, Tamer A. Basha, Sebastian Weingärtner, Mehmet Akçakaya, Sophie Berg, Warren J. Manning and Reza Nezafat
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:46
  42. Gadolinium (Gd) Extracellular volume fraction (ECV) by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has been proposed as a non-invasive method for assessment of diffuse myocardial fibrosis. Yet only few studies use...

    Authors: Christophe de Meester de Ravenstein, Caroline Bouzin, Siham Lazam, Jamila Boulif, Mihaela Amzulescu, Julie Melchior, Agnès Pasquet, David Vancraeynest, Anne-Catherine Pouleur, Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde and Bernhard L. Gerber
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:48
  43. Left atrial (LA) dilatation is associated with a large variety of cardiac diseases. Current cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) strategies to measure LA volumes are based on multi-breath-hold multi-slice a...

    Authors: Orestis Vardoulis, Pierre Monney, Amit Bermano, Amir Vaxman, Craig Gotsman, Janine Schwitter, Matthias Stuber, Nikolaos Stergiopulos and Juerg Schwitter
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:47
  44. Although cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is showing increasingly diagnostic potential in left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), relatively little research relevant to CMR is conducted in children with...

    Authors: Huaibing Cheng, Minjie Lu, Cuihong Hou, Xuhua Chen, Li Li, Jing Wang, Gang Yin, Xiuyu Chen, Wei Xiangli, Chen Cui, Jianmin Chu, Shu Zhang, Sanjay K Prasad, Jielin Pu and Shihua Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:44
  45. In acute myocardial infarction (MI), late Gadolinium enhancement (LGE) has been proposed to include the infarcted myocardium and area at risk. However, little information is available on the optimal timing aft...

    Authors: José F. Rodríguez-Palomares, José T. Ortiz-Pérez, Daniel C. Lee, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Paula Tejedor, Robert O Bonow and Edwin Wu
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:43
  46. Authors: Ming-Yen Ng, Qin Li, Anna Calleja, Djeven P Deva, Andrew M Crean, Christiane Gruner, Robert M Iwanochko and Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:42

    The original article was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:P275

  47. Multi-contrast vessel wall cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has demonstrated its capability for atherosclerotic plaque morphology measurement and component characterization in different vasculatures. Ho...

    Authors: Zechen Zhou, Rui Li, Xihai Zhao, Le He, Xiaole Wang, Jinnan Wang, Niranjan Balu and Chun Yuan
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:41
  48. Open cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) scanners offer the potential for imaging patients with claustrophobia or large body size, but at a lower 1.0 Tesla magnetic field. This study aimed to evaluate the ...

    Authors: Jimmy C Lu, James C Nielsen, Layne Morowitz, Muzammil Musani, Maryam Ghadimi Mahani, Prachi P. Agarwal, El-Sayed H. Ibrahim and Adam L. Dorfman
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:39
  49. Mitochondrial myopathies (MM) are a heterogeneous group of inherited conditions resulting from a primary defect in the mitochondrial respiratory chain with consecutively impaired cellular energy metabolism. Sm...

    Authors: Anca Florian, Anna Ludwig, Bianca Stubbe-Dräger, Matthias Boentert, Peter Young, Johannes Waltenberger, Sabine Rösch, Udo Sechtem and Ali Yilmaz
    Citation: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015 17:40