Free-breathing 3D coronary MRA: The impact of 'isotropic' image resolution

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 389-393

  Botnar, René M ^a,b,c   Stuber, Matthias ^a,b   Kissinger, Kraig V ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D coronary MRA; Coronary angiography; Isotropic voxel size; Navigator gating; Rapid imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034082822     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(200004)11:4<389::AID-JMRI6>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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