Three-dimensional cerebral contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance venography at 3.0 Tesla: Initial results using highly accelerated parallel acquisition

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 763-768

  Nael, Kambiz ^a,d   Fenchel, Michael ^b   Salamon, Noriko ^a   Duckwiler, Gary R ^a   Laub, Gerhard ^c   Finn, J Paul ^a   Villablanca, J Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 Tesla; 3D cerebral venography; Contrast enhanced MR venography; High magnetic field; Parallel acquisition techniques

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; RANK SUM TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

EID: 33748753407     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000236992.21065.04     Document Type: Article

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