Improved suppression of plaque-mimicking artifacts in black-blood carotid atherosclerosis imaging using a multislice motion-sensitized driven-equilibrium (MSDE) turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 973-981

  Wang, Jinnan ^a,b,d   Yarnykh, Vasily L ^b   Hatsukami, Thomas ^c   Chu, Baocheng ^b   Balu, Niranjan ^a,b   Yuan, Chun ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Black blood; Carotid MRI; Flow suppression; MSDE

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIN POLARIZATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD SUPPRESSIONS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DOUBLE-INVERSION-RECOVERY; FLOW SUPPRESSION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MSDE; SIGNAL SUPPRESSION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 35948971057     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21385     Document Type: Article

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