SNR improvement for multiinjection time-resolved high-resolution CE-MRA of the peripheral vasculature

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 909-917

  Du, Jiang ^a,d   Carroll, T J ^a   Block, W F ^a,c   Fain, S B ^a   Korosec, F R ^a,b   Grist, T M ^a,b   Mistretta, C A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced; Matched filtering; MR angiography; Peripheral; Time resolved; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATCHED FILTERS;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED; MATCHED FILTERING; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL; TIME-RESOLVED; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GADODIAMIDE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CALCULATION; CARTESIAN ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MASK SUBTRACTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

EID: 0037408195     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10448     Document Type: Article

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