Intracranial black-blood MR angiography with high-resolution 3D fast spin echo

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 298-310

  Alexander, Andrew L ^a   Buswell, Henry R ^a   Sun, Yi ^b   Chapman, Brian E ^a   Tsuruda, Jay S ^a   Parker, Dennis L ^a  

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

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood; MRA; Three dimensional fast spin echo; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPIN POLARIZATION;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; FAST SPIN ECHOS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; RECEIVER BANDWIDTHS; VESSELS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN SLICE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031877409     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910400216     Document Type: Article

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