Tailoring the flow sensitivity of fast spin-echo sequences for noncontrast peripheral MR angiography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1098-1108

  Storey, Pippa ^a   Atanasova, Iliyana P ^a   Lim, Ruth P ^a   Xu, Jian ^b   Kim, Daniel ^a   Chen, Qun ^a   Lee, Vivian S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast spin echo; Flow; Noncontrast MRA

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY; FAST SPIN ECHOS; FLOW; FLOW SENSITIVITY; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NONCONTRAST MRA; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SYSTOLE; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 77957311619     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22510     Document Type: Article

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