Aortic vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0 tesla: A reproducibility study of respiratory navigator gated free-breathing 3D black blood magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-44

  Roes, Stijntje D ^a   Westenberg, Jos J M ^a   Doornbos, Joost ^a   Van Der Geest, Rob J ^a   Angelié, Emmanuelle ^a   De Roos, Albert ^a   Stuber, Matthias ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

3T MRI; Aortic vessel wall; Black Blood; Reproducibility; Respiratory motion suppression

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; INVERSION RECOVERY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); VESSEL WALLS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 60349116559     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21798     Document Type: Article

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