Improved magnetization preparation for navigator steady-state free precession 3D coronary MR angiography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1297-1300

  Nguyen, Thanh D ^a   Spincemaille, Pascal ^a   Wang, Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; Magnetic resonance angiography; Navigator echo; Steady state free precession; TrueFISP

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

CORONARY ARTERIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NAVIGATOR ECHO; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; TRUEFISP;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 2942751880     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20095     Document Type: Article

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