MR angiography of the hand with subsystolic cuff-compression optimization of injection parameters

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 905-910

  Gluecker, Thomas M ^a   Bongartz, Georg ^a   Ledermann, Hans Peter ^a   Bilecen, Deniz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Hand; MR angiography; Musculoskeletal imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CUFF; DIGITAL ARTERY; EVALUATION; FLOW RATE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INJECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULNAR ARTERY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ADULT; CONSTRICTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33749024709     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.1007     Document Type: Article

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