Supraaortic arteries: Contrast-enhanced MR angiography at 3.0 T - Highly accelerated parallel acquisition for improved spatial resolution over an extended field of view

Radiology

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 600-609

  Nael, Kambiz ^a   Villablanca, J Pablo ^a   Pope, Whitney B ^a   McNamara, Thomas O ^a   Laub, Gerhard ^b   Finn, J Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPRAAORTIC ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33846528589     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2422051784     Document Type: Article

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