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Advances in MRI tagging techniques for determining regional myocardial strain

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MRI of the heart with magnetization tagging provides a potentially useful new way to assess cardiac mechanical function, through revealing the local motion of otherwise indistinguishable portions of the heart wall. Although still an evolving area, tagged cardiac MRI is already able to provide novel quantitative information on cardiac function. Exploiting this potential requires developing tailored methods for both imaging and image analysis. In this article, we review some of the progress that has been made in developing imaging methods for tagged cardiac MRI.

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Pai, V.M., Axel, L. Advances in MRI tagging techniques for determining regional myocardial strain. Curr Cardiol Rep 8, 53–58 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-006-0011-4

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