Magnetic resonance imaging of the coronary vessel wall at 3 T using an obliquely oriented reinversion slab with adiabatic pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1115-1122

  Priest, Andrew N ^a   Bansmann, P Martin ^a   Kaul, Michael G ^a   Stork, Alexander ^a   Adam, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 T; Black blood; Coronary arteries; Double inversion recovery; Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; BLOOD; HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CORONARY ARTERIES; DOUBLE-INVERSION-RECOVERY; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; HIGH SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIOS (SNR); RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL METHOD; VESSEL WALLS; VOLUMETRIC COVERAGES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 27644475810     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20681     Document Type: Article

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