The added value of longitudinal black-blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography in the cross sectional identification of carotid atherosclerotic ulceration

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yu, Wei ^a,b   Underhill, Hunter R ^a   Ferguson, Marina S ^a   Hippe, Daniel S ^a   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a   Chu, Baocheng ^a  

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

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY UCLERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCER;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCER;

EID: 70349572920     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-11-31     Document Type: Article

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