Multislice dark-blood carotid artery wall imaging: A 1.5 T 3.0 T comparison

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 699-705

  Koktzoglou, Ioannis ^a,b,f   Chung, Yiu Cho ^c   Mani, Venkatesh ^d   Carroll, Timothy J ^a,b   Morasch, Mark D ^a   Mizsei, Gabor ^d   Simonetti, Orlando P ^e   Fayad, Zahi A ^d   Li, Debiao ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood; Carotid arteries; High field imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 33646183558     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20563     Document Type: Article

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