to determine the usefulness of the time intervals obtained from the first derivative of apex cardiogram (da/dt) in assessing contraction and relaxation, 20 hemodynamically and angiographical1y investigated patients with coronary artery disease and 29 patients with hypertensive heart disease were studied. as a control group there were used 50 normal subjects. since contraction and relaxation is ...

msec (p=0.04) with a concomitant decrease in IVRT from 74±18 to 38±8 msec (p=0.03). During decreased inotropy (by propranolol infusion) at constant preload, slowing of relaxation was indicated by an increase in T from 40±8 to 51±+13 msec (p=0.02) with a concomitant increase in IVRT from 71±+15 to 83+±21 msec (p<0.05). A significant correlation between changes in and changes in IVRT was found (r...

A method is presented to partially transfer nuclear spin polarization from one isotope S to another isotope I by the way of heteronuclear spin couplings, while minimizing the loss of spin order to other degrees of freedom. The desired I spin polarization to be detected is a design parameter, while the sequence of pulses at the two Larmor frequencies is optimized to store the greatest unused S s...

Several single-scan experiments for the measurement of the longitudinal relaxation time (T1) are proposed. These experiments result in fast and accurate determinations of the relaxation rate, are relatively robust to pulse imperfections, and preserve information about the chemical shift. The method used in these experiments is to first encode the T1 values as a spatial variation of the magnetiz...