Use of Contrast Enhancement and High-Resolution 3D Black-Blood MRI to Identify Inflammation in Atherosclerosis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1127-1135

  Hur, Jin ^a   Park, Jaeseok ^a,b   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Lee, Hye Jeong ^a   Shim, Hyo Sup ^b   Choe, Kyu Ok ^a   Choi, Byoung Wook ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2 dimensional; 2D; 3 dimensional; 3D; Abbreviations and Acronyms; DCE; dynamic contrast enhanced; enhancement ratio; ER; gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid; Gd DTPA; magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; SI; signal intensities

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROSIS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFLAMMATION; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROVESSELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RABBITS;

EID: 78249236180     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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