Probing transmural myocardial perfusion with CMR

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¹ Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: f-klocke@northwestern.edu.
² Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

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Francis J Klocke et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Jan.

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. 2014 Jan;7(1):23-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.09.017.

¹ Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: f-klocke@northwestern.edu.
² Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

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Keywords: cardiac magnetic resonance; endocardial-epicardial flow ratios; subendocardial ischemia; transmural myocardial perfusion.

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