3D blood flow characteristics in the carotid artery bifurcation assessed by flow-sensitive 4D MRI at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-74

  Harloff, A ^a,b   Albrecht, F ^a   Spreer, J ^a   Stalder, A F ^a   Bock, J ^a   Frydrychowicz, A ^a   Schollhorn, J ^a   Hetzel, A ^a   Schumacher, M ^a   Hennig, J ^a   Markl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D; Blood flow; Carotid artery stenosis; Duplex sonography; MRI; Phase contrast

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; FILLING; FLOW PATTERNS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; PHASE CONTRASTS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

HEMODYNAMICS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECANALIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 60349117395     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21774     Document Type: Article

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