Hybrid of opposite-contrast MR angiography (HOP-MRA) combining time-of-flight and flow-sensitive black-blood contrasts

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 450-458

  Kimura, Tokunori ^a   Ikedo, Masato ^a   Takemoto, Syuhei ^a  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Black blood; Flow sensitive; Hybrid; MR; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FLOW SENSITIVE; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; HYBRID; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; TIME OF FLIGHT; VELOCITY COMPENSATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYBRID OF OPPOSITE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67749142163     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22021     Document Type: Article

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