Pulsatile motion effects on 3D magnetic resonance angiography: Implications for evaluating carotid artery stenoses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 605-611

  Al Kwifi, Osama ^a   Kim, Jae K ^a   Stainsby, Jeff ^a   Huang, Yuexi ^a   Sussman, Marshall S ^a   Farb, Richard I ^a   Wright, Graham A ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery motion; Elliptical phase encoding; MR angiography; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CAROTID ARTERY; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; PHASE ENCODING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 4243091689     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20185     Document Type: Article

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