Rapid dark-blood carotid vessel-wall imaging with random bipolar gradients in a radial SSFP acquisition

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1299-1304

  Lin, Hung Yu ^a,b,c   Flask, Chris A ^a   Dale, Brian M ^a,b,d   Duerk, Jeffrey L ^a,b,e  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Black blood; Dark blood imaging; Flow suppression; SSFP; Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION;

EID: 34249912891     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20821     Document Type: Article

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