High-resolution intracranial MRA at 7T using autocalibrating parallel imaging: initial experience in vascular disease patients

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1329-1333

  von Morze, Cornelius ^a   Purcell, Derk D ^a   Banerjee, Suchandrima ^a   Xu, Duan ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^a   Kelley, Douglas A ^b   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a   Vigneron, Daniel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; GRAPPA; Intracranial; MRA; Parallel imaging; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 55949113544     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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