Determining uterine blood flow in pregnancy with magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 507-510

  Pates, Jason A ^a   Hatab, Mustapha R ^a   McIntire, Donald D ^a   Cunningham, F Gary ^a   Twickler, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; MRI; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; PELVIS ANGIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS;

EID: 77952290237     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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