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Tissue characterization of chronic myocardial infarction

T D Scholz1, B F Vandenberg, S R Fleagle

  • 1Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.

Investigative Radiology
|October 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Magnetic resonance (MR) relaxation times (T1 and T2) and ultrasound backscatter can characterize myocardial tissue. Infarcted myocardium showed increased T2, backscatter, and collagen, but relationships were not significant.

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