Improved coronary MR angiography using wideband steady state free precession at 3 Tesla with sub-millimeter resolution

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1224-1229

  Lee, Hsu Lei ^a   Shankaranarayanan, Ajit ^b   Pohost, Gerald M ^a,c   Nayak, Krishna S ^a,c  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating repetition time; Balanced SSFP; Coronary artery imaging; Wideband SSFP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951601275     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22150     Document Type: Article

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