Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the ascending aorta after graft-inclusion surgery: Comparison between an ultrafast contrast-enhanced MR sequence and conventional cine-MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 478-483

  Loubeyre, Pierre ^a   Delignette, Alexandra ^a   Bonefoy, Laurence ^a   Douek, Philippe ^a   Amiel, Michel ^a   Revel, Didier ^a  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Cine MR; Contrast medium; Fast magnetic resonance imaging; Thoracic aortic surgery

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM 1,4,7,10-TETRAAZACYCLODODECANE-N,N',N'',N'''-TETRAACETATE; GADOTERIC ACID; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030138487     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880060311     Document Type: Article

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