title: Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart and its role in current cardiology.
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging has been demonstrated to be useful in the assessment of aortic and pericardial disease, cardiac masses, and congenital heart disease. Recently, developments in rapid imaging, assessment of regional function, evaluation of intracardiac shunts and valvular regurgitation, and magnetic resonance coronary angiography have been achieved, indicating an increasing role for magnetic resonance techniques in clinical cardiology.
authors.affiliation: Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Magnetic Resonance Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Sayad
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Peshock
mesh_terms: D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis