[Applicability of nuclear spin tomography to heart diseases].
Thirty-one patients with abnormalities of the heart and ten controls were examined by ECG-triggered nuclear resonance tomography. All patients had previously been completely investigated. Chamber sizes and mural thickness could be reliably demonstrated and, in addition, it was possible to show areas which could not be easily investigated by echocardiography. Visualisation of the valves was limited, but intra- and para-cardial lesions could be differentiated by a double echo technique. Absence and defects of septa could be shown exactly, as well as accurate demonstration of the relationship of the large vessels to the cardiac chambers.
D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis
Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Kernspintomographie bei Erkrankungen des Herzens.