Accuracy of phase contrast, black-blood, and bright-blood pulse sequences for measuring compliance and distensibility coefficients in a human-tissue mimicking phantom

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 160-167

  Taviani, Valentina ^a,b   Patterson, Andrew J ^a   Worters, Pauline ^c   Sutcliffe, Michael P F ^b   Graves, Martin J ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Cine black blood; Cine bright blood; Luminal area change; Phase contrast

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART CYCLE; HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 74049161165     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22005     Document Type: Article

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