Multi-echo acquisition of MR angiography and venography of the brain at 3 tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 449-454

  Du, Yiping P ^a   Jin, Zhaoyang ^b,c   Hu, Yuzheng ^d   Tanabe, Jody ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MR angiography; MR venography; Multi echo acquisition; Off resonance artifact; Susceptibility weighted imaging; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; VISIBILITY;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VEINS;

EID: 68049120626     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21833     Document Type: Article

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