Reduction of flow- and eddy-currents-induced image artifacts in coronary magnetic resonance angiography using a linear centric-encoding SSFP sequence

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1138-1147

  Bi, Xiaoming ^a,b   Park, Jaeseok ^c   Deshpande, Vibhas ^c   Simonetti, Orlando ^d   Laub, Gerhard ^c   Li, Debiao ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; Eddy currents; Flow; High field imaging; Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); SSFP

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CORONARY ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34848863377     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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