Antonella Meloni1,
  Heather Zymeski2, Alessia Pepe1, Massimo Lombardi1,
  John C. Wood2
 1CMR
  Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana and Institute of Clinical
  Physiology, Pisa, Italy; 2Division of Cardiology,, Childrens
  Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
We developed a novel transit time estimation method from CMR flow curves based on the group delay concept. Our method was superior with two commonly used methods based on full-wave half maximum and correlation approaches in terms of dependence by the temporal resolution, dependence by the curves taken into account and reproducibility.