Breath-hold single-dose gadolinium-enhanced three-dimensional MR aortography: Usefulness of a timing examination and MR power injector

Radiology

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 705-710

  Earls, James P ^a,b   Rofsky, Neil M ^a   DeCorato, Douglas R ^a   Krinsky, Glenn A ^a   Weinreb, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta, MR; Gadolinium; Magnetic resonance (MR), motion correction; Magnetic resonance (MR), pulse sequences; Magnetic resonance (MR), vascular studies

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

EID: 0029805810     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.201.3.8939219     Document Type: Article

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