Renal magnetic resonance angiography at 3.0 Tesla using a 32-element phased-array coil system and parallel imaging in 2 directions

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 697-703

  Fenchel, Michael ^a,b   Nael, Kambiz ^b   Deshpande, Vibhas S ^c   Finn, J Paul ^b   Kramer, Ulrich ^a   Miller, Stephan ^a   Ruehm, Stefan ^b   Laub, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; GRAPPA; Magnetic resonance; MR angiography; MRA; Parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENERALIZED AUTOCALIBRATING PARTIALLY PARALLEL ACQUISITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARALLEL IMAGING; PHASED ARRAY COIL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33747062146     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000233319.04760.a4     Document Type: Article

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