Nonenhanced free-breathing ECG-gated steady-state free precession 3D MR angiography of the renal arteries: Comparison between 1.5 T and 3 T

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 794-798

  Lanzman, Rotem Shlomo ^a   Kröpil, Patric ^a   Schmitt, Peter ^b   Freitag, Sonja Marie ^a   Ringelstein, Adrian ^a   Wittsack, Hans Jörg ^a   Blondin, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b Imaging and IT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

3T; MR angiography; Renal artery; Steady state free precession

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RENAL ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; RENAL ARTERY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749252444     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2814     Document Type: Article

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