Imaging of the intracranial venous system with a contrast-enhanced volumetric interpolated examination

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1010-1018

  Wetzel, Stephan G ^a,b   Law, Meng ^a   Lee, Vivian S ^a   Cha, Soonmee ^a   Johnson, Glyn ^a   Nelson, Kim ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral veins; Contrast media; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENOUS CIRCULATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 0038418783     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1714-6     Document Type: Article

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