Three-dimensional electrocardiographically gated variable flip angle FSE imaging for MR angiography of the hands at 3.0 T: Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 874-881

  Lim, Ruth P ^a   Storey, Pippa ^a   Atanasova, Iliyana P ^a   Xu, Jian ^c   Hecht, Elizabeth M ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Stoffel, David R ^a   Chang, Hugo ^c   McGorty, Kellyanne ^a   Chen, Qun ^a   Rusinek, Henry ^a   Belmont, H Michael ^b   Lee, Vivian S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD TEMPERATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, LIMITED;

EID: 70349266127     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2531090290     Document Type: Article

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