Measuring aortic diameter with different MR techniques: Comparison of three-dimensional (3D) navigated steady-state free-precession (SSFP), 3D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA), 2D T2 black blood, and 2D cine SSFP

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-184

  Potthast, Silke ^a,b   Mitsumori, Lee ^a   Stanescu, Luana A ^a   Richardson, Michael L ^a   Branch, Kelley ^c   Dubinsky, Theodore J ^a   Maki, Jeffrey H ^a,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Department Radiology (114)   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascending aorta; Cardiac MR; Contrast enhanced MRA; Noncontrast MRA; SSFP

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; AORTA, THORACIC; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049113680     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22016     Document Type: Article

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