Resolution-Insensitive Velocity and Flow Rate Measurement in Low-Background Phase-Contrast MRA

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 785-793

  Van Der Weide, Remko ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Bakker, Chris J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Flow measurement; Partial volume effect; Phantoms; Phase contrast

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; FLOW VELOCITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOMS; VELOCITY;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOW RATE MEASUREMENTS; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PHASE CONTRASTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURROUNDING MATERIALS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOW RATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

EID: 1842481937     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20035     Document Type: Article

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