Assessment of the uterine artery before uterine arterial embolization: Comparison of unenhanced 3D water-excitation sensitivity-encoding time-of-flight (WEST) and gadolinium-enhanced 3D sensitivity-encoding water-excitation multishot echo-planar (SWEEP) MR angiography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 557-562

  Mori, Kensaku ^a   Shiigai, Masanari ^b   Ueda, Takuya ^c   Kita, Naoki ^d   Tanaka, Nami ^e   Minami, Manabu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^e Tsukuba Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embolization therapeutic; Leiomyoma; Magnetic resonance angiography; Uterus

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; WATER;

EID: 40449088285     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21291     Document Type: Article

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