Value of high spatial and high temporal resolution magnetic resonance angiography for differentiation between idiopathic and thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Initial results

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2256-2263

  Ley, Sebastian ^a,b   Fink, Christian ^a   Zaporozhan, Julia ^a   Borst, Mathias M ^c   Meyer, F Joachim ^c   Puderbach, Michael ^a   Eichinger, Monika ^a,b   Plathow, Christian ^a   Grünig, Ekkehard ^c   Kreitner, Karl Friedrich ^b   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CTEPH; Hypertension; IPAH; MRI; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 27744511452     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2792-z     Document Type: Article

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