Fast spoiled gradient-recalled MR imaging of thoracic aortic dissection: Preliminary clinical experience at 1.5 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Summers, Ronald M ^a,b   Sostman, H Dirk ^a   Spritzer, Charles E ^a   Fidler, Jeff L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta, dissection; MR, rapid imaging; MR, vascular studies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA;

EID: 0030029901     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0730-725X(95)02045-U     Document Type: Article

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