What is it about?
This articles discusses the background, the challenges and the chosen approach to image 100,000 hearts using MRI in UK Biobank. This is to date the largest heart MRI study in the world.
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Why is it important?
UK Biobank's heart MRI data are likely to be used in many research studies and understanding the background will be important. The opportunities that this resource will provide are endless.
Perspectives
It is exciting to have been involved from the beginning when UK Biobank were considering adding imaging to enhance the available data in 100,000 of the 500,000 UK Biobanker. I feel priviledged to have been involved in discussions around e.g. what field strength to use, whether contrast agents could be used, what to image in a limited 20 minute time frame. And finally to have been involved in the successful fundraising and setting up of the MRI centres has been fantastic as in this process I have met so many enthusiastic and capable people.
Professor Steffen E Petersen
Queen Mary University of London
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This page is a summary of: Imaging in population science: cardiovascular magnetic resonance in 100,000 participants of UK Biobank - rationale, challenges and approaches, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-15-46.
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