Infragenual cuff-compression reduces venous contamination in contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the calf

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 347-351

  Bilecen, Deniz ^a,c   Schulte, Anja Carina ^b   Bongartz, Georg ^a   Heidecker, Hanns Georg ^a   Aschwanden, Markus ^a   Jäger, Kurt A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography; Cuff compression; Infrapopliteal kinetics; Peripheral arterial occlusive disease; Venous contamination

Indexed keywords

GADOTERIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG VEIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENOUS BLOOD;

AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY;

EID: 3242760632     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20110     Document Type: Article

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