Cardiac MR Imaging and the Specter of Double-Strand Breaks

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez; Ruth A Kleinerman; Dorothea McAreavey; Preetha Rajaraman

doi:10.1148/radiol.2015151943

Cardiac MR Imaging and the Specter of Double-Strand Breaks

Radiology. 2015 Nov;277(2):329-31. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015151943.

Authors

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez¹, Ruth A Kleinerman¹, Dorothea McAreavey¹, Preetha Rajaraman¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892 (A.B.d.G., R.A.K., P.R.); and Department of Cardiology, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Md (D.M.).

Abstract

The use of nonionizing, rather than ionizing, radiation should still be considered one of the advantages of MR imaging for cardiovascular disease assessment.

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Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded*
Female
Heart Diseases / diagnosis*
Humans
Lymphocytes*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male