Improved carotid intraplaque hemorrhage imaging using a slab-selective phase-sensitive inversion-recovery (SPI) sequence

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1332-1340

  Wang, Jinnan ^a   Ferguson, Marina S ^b   Balu, Niranjan ^b   Yuan, Chun ^b   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^b   Bornert, Peter ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

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

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid MRI; Intraplaque hemorrhage; MP RAGE; SPI; Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECOVERY;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HEMORRHAGE DETECTION; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY; INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; MP-RAGE; PHASE SENSITIVE INVERSION RECOVERY; VESSEL WALLS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SLAB SELECTIVE PHASE SENSITIVE INVERSION RECOVERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 78349236542     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22539     Document Type: Article

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