Modified magnetic resonance angiography of the liver using sensitivity encoding in comparison with digital subtraction angiography and CT arterial portography

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-191

  Yan, Sen Xiang ^a   Liang, Ting Bo ^a   Fujii, Masahiko ^b   Kawamitsu, Hideaki ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^b   Zheng, Shu Sen ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Kobe Graduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital subtraction angiography; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orthotopic liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PORTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 20344366059     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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