4D phase contrast MRI at 3 T: Effect of standard and blood-pool contrast agents on SNR, PC-MRA, and blood flow visualization

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 330-338

  Bock, Jelena ^a   Frydrychowicz, Alex ^c   Stalder, Aurélien F ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a,d   Burkhardt, Hans ^b   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Markl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow visualization; Contrast agent; Phase contrast MR angiography; SNR; Thoracic aorta; Thoracic vessels

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LAKES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST AGENT; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC VESSELS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBENIC ACID; GADOFOSVESET;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 75749105811     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22199     Document Type: Article

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