Multiple contrast fast spin-echo approach to black-blood intracranial MRA: Use of complementary and supplementary information

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1173-1181

  Liu, Kecheng ^a   Margosian, Paul ^a  

^a Marconi Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood magnetic resonance angiography; Complementary and supplementary vascular information; Dual contrast three dimensional multiple thin slab fast spin echo (3DFSE) sequence; Efficiency of data acquisition; Slab boundary artifact (SBA)

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLACK BLOOD MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE;

EID: 0035659806     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(01)00459-3     Document Type: Article

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