Signal features of the atherosclerotic plaque at 3.0 Tesla versus 1.5 Tesla: Impact on automatic classification

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 987-995

  Kerwin, William S ^a,b   Liu, Fei ^a   Yarnykh, Vasily ^a   Underhill, Hunter ^a   Oikawa, Minako ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Field strength; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY ENHANCED PROBABILISTIC PLAQUE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 53549086140     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21529     Document Type: Article

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