Multidirectional depiction of internal carotid arterial stenosis: Three- dimensional time-of-flight MR angiography versus rotational and conventional digital subtraction angiography

Radiology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 511-516

  Elgersma, Otto E H ^a   Wüst, Aloys F J ^a   Buijs, Pieter C ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Eikelboom, Bert C ^a   Mali, Willem P T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiography, comparative studies; Carotid arteries, stenosis or obstruction; Digital subtraction angiography; Magnetic resonance (MR), contrast enhancement; Magnetic resonance (MR), three dimensional; Magnetic resonance (MR), time of flight

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; ETHICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0343517482     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.216.2.r00au02511     Document Type: Article

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