title: Coronary MR angiography.
abstract: The principles underlying coronary MR angiographic pulse sequences are reviewed, including basic coronary anatomy, motion, and flow physiology. Coronary MR angiographic techniques can be subdivided into breath-hold (single or repeated) and nonbreath-hold techniques. The recent introduction of navigator pulses for real-time respiratory gating or triggering allows nonbreath-hold or repeated breath-hold 3-D coronary MR angiography, and will allow a more widespread use of this technique.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Service, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, California, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Duerinckx
mesh_terms: D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods