Imaging of the Thoracic Aorta with Time-Resolved Three-Dimensional Phase-Contrast MRI: A Review

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 358-364

  Hope, Thomas A ^a   Herfkens, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4D flow; phase contrast; thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 60749134138     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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