New Metallic MR Stents for Artifact-Free Coronary MR Angiography: Feasibility Study in a Swine Model

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 250-253

  Buecker, Arno ^a,b   Spuentrup, Elmar ^a   Ruebben, Alexander ^a   Mahnken, Andreas ^a   Nguyen, Trung Hieu ^a   Kinzel, Sylvia ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Clinic of Diagnostic Radiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

cMRA; MR stents; Swine model

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; COPPER DERIVATIVE; GOLD DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY STENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE;

EID: 1942468942     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000116894.48384.c2     Document Type: Article

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