MR Imaging of the Aorta

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 485-497

  Sakamoto, Ichiro ^a   Sueyoshi, Eijun ^a   Uetani, Masataka ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULCER;

AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250728648     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2007.04.007     Document Type: Review

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