Carotid plaque assessment using fast 3D isotropic resolution black-blood MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 627-637

  Balu, Niranjan ^a   Yarnykh, Vasily L ^a   Chu, Baocheng ^a   Wang, Jinnan ^b   Hatsukami, Thomas ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a  

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

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D MERGE; approach to spoiled steady state; carotid atherosclerotic plaque; diffusion preparation; MSDE; snapshot FLASH; SPACE; three dimensional black blood; vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; MSDE; SNAPSHOT FLASH; SPACE; STEADY STATE; VESSEL WALLS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 78650346329     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22642     Document Type: Article

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