High-resolution gadolinium-enhanced 3D MRA of the infrapopliteal arteries: Lessons for improving bolus-chase peripheral MRA

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 543-549

  Hood, Maureen N ^a,b   Ho, Vincent B ^a,b   Foo, Thomas K F ^c   Marcos, Hani B ^b   Hess, Sandra L ^b   Choyke, Peter L ^a,b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Gadolinium; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Peripheral arteries

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACCURACY; ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POPLITEAL ARTERY;

EID: 0036755951     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00531-3     Document Type: Article

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