Accelerated time-resolved three-dimensional MR velocity mapping of blood flow patterns in the aorta using SENSE and k-t BLAST

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stadlbauer, Andreas ^a,b   van der Riet, Wilma ^c   Crelier, Gerard ^d   Salomonowitz, Erich ^a  

^a MR Physics Group   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c European MRI Consultancy EMRIC   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aorta; k t BLAST; Phase contrast; SENSE; Temporal blurring; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW; 3D STREAMLINE; 3D-VELOCITY; ACCELERATION FACTORS; ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE; AORTIC BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS; BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS; CARDIAC CYCLES; MR SEQUENCE; PEAK VELOCITIES; PHASE CONTRASTS; SOFTWARE TOOL; TEMPORAL BLURRING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME-RESOLVED; VELOCITY MAPPING;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEMODYNAMICS; MAPPING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; K T BROAD USE LINEAR ACQUISITION SPEED UP TECHNIQUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953872385     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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