Evaluation of Intraportal Venous Flow Distribution by Unenhanced MR Angiography Using Three- Dimensional Fast Spin-Echo With a Selective Tagging Pulse: Efficacy of Subtraction of Tag-on and Tag-off Images Acquired During a Single Breath-hold

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1224-1229

  Ito, Katsuyoshi ^a,c   Shimizu, Ayame ^a   Tsukuda, Toshinobu ^a   Sasaki, Katsumi ^a   Tanabe, Masahiro ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a   Jo, Chisaki ^b   Kanazawa, Hitoshi ^b   Miyazaki, Mitsue ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

MR angiography; Portal vein; Subtraction; Tagging pulse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENIC VEIN; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; ALGORITHM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 66149138838     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21764     Document Type: Article

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