Highly undersampled supraaortic MRA at 3.0 T: Initial results with parallel imaging in two directions using a 16-channel neurovascular coil and parallel imaging factors up to 16

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1311-1318

  Kukuk, Guido M ^a   Hadizadeh, Dariusch R ^a   Gieseke, Jürgen ^a,b   von Falkenhausen, Marcus ^a   Böhm, Ingrid ^a   Semrau, Renate ^a   Urbach, Horst ^a   Koscielny, Arne ^a   Verrel, Frauke ^a   Wilhelm, Kai ^a   Schild, Hans H ^a   Willinek, Winfried A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 Tesla; MRA; Parallel imaging; Sensitivity encoding; Supraaortic arteries

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77958183888     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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