High resolution carotid black-blood 3T MR with parallel imaging and dedicated 4-channel surface coils

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Saam, Tobias ^a   Raya, Jose G ^a   Cyran, Clemens C ^a   Bochmann, Katja ^a   Meimarakis, Georgios ^a   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Clevert, Dirk A ^a   Frey, Ute ^a   Yuan, Chun ^b   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^b,c   Werf, Abe ^d   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d Machnet BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES CONTROL; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955627553     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-11-41     Document Type: Article

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