Edited by
RAYMOND Y. KWONG

2008

Since the successful invention of the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system by Damadian et al. for cancer diagnosis three decades ago, the medical use of MRI has developed rapidly applicable to a wide range of diseases. Since the first attempt to image the heart with MRI in the early 1980s, extensive hardware and software advance had overcome the initial obstacles of gating a rapidly beating heart and long acquisition times.