Coronary artery wall imaging: Initial experience at 3 Tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-132

  Koktzoglou, Ioannis ^a   Simonetti, Orlando ^b   Li, Debiao ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood; Coronary artery; High field imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CALCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 12744261207     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20232     Document Type: Article

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