Non-Contrast-Enhanced MR Portography With Time-Spatial Labeling Inversion Pulses: Comparison of Imaging With Three-Dimensional Half-Fourier Fast Spin-Echo and True Steady-State Free-Precession Sequences

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1140-1146

  Shimada, Kotaro ^a   Isoda, Hiroyoshi ^a   Okada, Tomohisa ^a   Kamae, Toshikazu ^a   Arizono, Shigeki ^a   Hirokawa, Yuusuke ^a   Shibata, Toshiya ^a   Togashi, Kaori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Half Fourier fast spin echo; MR angiography; Non contrast enhanced; Portal vein; Time spatial labeling inversion pulse; True steady state free precession

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HEART; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIN LABELING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PORTAL VEIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIN LABELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149152657     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21753     Document Type: Article

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