Flow targeted 3d steady-state free-precession coronary MR angiography: Comparison of three different imaging approaches

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 757-762

  Katoh, Marcus ^a,b,c   Spuentrup, Elmar ^c,d   Stuber, Matthias ^e   Buecker, Arno ^a   Manning, Warren J ^b   Günther, Rolf W ^c   Botnar, Rene M ^a,f  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary blood flow; Coronary MR angiography (cMRA); Radial k space sampling; Spin labeling; Steady state freeprecession (SSFP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 73349102203     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181bfe36c     Document Type: Article

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