Diffusion weighted imaging: A comprehensive evaluation of a fast spin echo DWI sequence with blade (PROPELLER) k-space sampling at 3 T, using a 32-channel head coil in acute Brain ischemia

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 656-661

  Attenberger, Ulrike I ^a,b,c   Runge, Val M ^a   Stemmer, Alto ^d   Williams, Kenneth D ^a   Naul, L Gill ^a   Michaely, Henrik J ^c   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^c   Reiser, Maximilian F ^b   Wintersperger, Bernd J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 T; Acute cerebral ischemia; BLADE (PROPELLER); Brain; Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI); Parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70349687115     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181af3f0e     Document Type: Article

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