Ultrafast whole-body MR angiography with two-dimensional parallel imaging at 3.0 T: Feasibility study

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 254-263

  Fenchel, Michael ^a   Doering, Joerg ^a   Seeger, Achim ^a   Kramer, Ulrich ^a   Rittig, Kilian ^a   Klumpp, Bernhard ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Miller, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 58149356732     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2501080494     Document Type: Article

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