The effect of image resolution on vessel signal in high-resolution magnetic resonance angiography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 632-641

  Parker, Dennis L ^a,b   Parker, Daniel J ^a   Blatter, Duane D ^c   Du, Yiping P ^b   Goodrich, Kenneth C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Fluid signal; Image interpolation; Partial volume artifact; Partial volume effect; Voxel sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VOLUME; CIRCULATION; FORECASTING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTRAST MEDIA; FORECASTING; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0030184881     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880060412     Document Type: Article

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