Advances in Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography of the Renal Arteries

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 561-572

  Leiner, Tim ^a,b   Michaely, Henrik ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced MR imaging; Functional MR imaging; Hypertension; Kidney; MR angiography; MR imaging; Renal arteries

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOBUTROL; GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE; GADOTERIDOL;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; RENAL ARTERY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 52949147463     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2008.07.013     Document Type: Review

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