Submillimeter isotropic resolution carotid wall MRI with swallowing compensation: Imaging results and semiautomated wall morphometry

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 815-823

  Koktzoglou, Ioannis ^a,b,c   Li, Debiao ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid; Magnetic resonance imaging; Morphometry; Segmentation; Vessel wall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWALLOWING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERIES; DEGLUTITION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34047139414     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20849     Document Type: Article

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