Importance of perfusion in myocardial vi
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Erik HedstrΓΆm; HΓ₯kan Arheden; Rolf Eriksson; Lars Johansson; HΓ₯kan Ahlstrom; Tom
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Purpose To investigate whether an extracellular gadoliniumβ(Gd)βbased contrast agent (CA) enters nonperfused myocardium during acute coronary occlusion, and whether nonperfused myocardium presents as hyperintense in delayed contrastβenhanced (DE) MR images in the absence of CA in th