The value of true-FISP sequence added to conventional gadolinium-enhanced MRA of abdominal aorta and its major branches

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-493

  Iozzelli, Andrea ^a   D'Orta, Giovanni ^a   Aliprandi, Alberto ^a   Secchi, Francesco ^a   Di Leo, Giovanni ^a   Sardanelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aorta; Magnetic resonance (MR); Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSMS; BREATH-HOLD; ENDOVASCULAR PROSTHESIS; FAST IMAGING; FOUR-POINT; FREE BREATHING; GD-DOTA; ILIAC ARTERIES; INFRARENAL AORTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RENAL ARTERIES; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERIES; VASCULATURE; WILCOXON TEST;

ANGIOGRAPHY; GADOLINIUM; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PROSTHETICS; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BLOOD VESSELS;

GADOLINIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMASIA; ATHEROMATOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBAR ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRUE FAST IMAGING WITH STEADY STATE PRECESSION; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 70449658300     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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