Time-resolved 3D MR velocity mapping at 3T: Improved navigator-gated assessment of vascular anatomy and blood flow

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 824-831

  Markl, Michael ^a   Harloff, Andreas ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a   Zaitsev, Maxim ^a   Jung, Bernd ^a   Weigang, Ernst ^a   Langer, Mathias ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Frydrychowicz, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta; Flow; Phase contrast MRI; Vascular hemodynamics; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34047115315     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20871     Document Type: Article

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