Respiratory self-gating for free-breathing abdominal phase-contrast blood flow measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 860-868

  Jin, Ning ^a,b   Lewandowski, Robert J ^b   Omary, Reed A ^a,b   Larson, Andrew C ^a,b,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NWU Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Flow; Phase contrast; Respiratory self gating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VOLUME; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RENAL ARTERY;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 65249138253     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21711     Document Type: Article

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