An assessment of the sharpness of carotid artery tissue boundaries with acquisition voxel size and field strength

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 246-253

  Greenman, Robert L ^a   Wang, Xiaoen ^a   Ngo, Long ^a   Marquis, Robert P ^a   Farrar, Norman ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition voxel; Carotid artery MRI; Edge detection; MRI field strength; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 38349161001     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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