Advantages of using multiple-echo image combination and asymmetric triangular phase masking in magnetic resonance venography at 3 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-37

  Brainovich, Valentina ^a   Sabatini, Umberto ^a   Hagberg, Gisela E ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BOLD dephasing; Susceptibility effects; SWI; Venography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; VEINS;

EID: 57049102449     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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