Initial experience with balanced turbo field echo in depicting carotid artery stenosis: Comparison with multiple overlapping thin slab acquisition and 3D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 354-360

  Gupta, Neeraj ^a   Swaminathan, Srirama V ^b   DeMarco, J Kevin ^c,d  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d St John Hospital and Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced turbo field echo; Carotid artery; CE MRA; MOTSA; MR angiography

Indexed keywords

GADOVERSETAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 24744448677     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20394     Document Type: Article

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