Non-Enhanced 3D MR Angiography of the Lower Extremity using ECG-Gated TSE Imaging with Non-Selective Refocusing Pulses - Initial Experience

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Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 861-867

  Lanzman, R S ^a   Blondin, D ^a   Schmitt, P ^b   Orzechowski, D ^a   Godehardt, E ^a   Scherer, A ^a   Modder U ^a   Kropil P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

arteries; extremities; MR angiography; pelvis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LEG ARTERY; LOWER LIMB; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958193380     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245328     Document Type: Article

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