Direct imaging and quantification of carotid plaque calcification

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1013-1020

  Du, Jiang ^a   Corbeil, Jacqueline ^a   Znamirowski, Richard ^a   Angle, Niren ^b   Peterson, Michael ^c   Bydder, Graeme M ^a   Kahn, Andrew M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

adiabatic inversion; carotid plaque calcification; mineral density; relaxation times; ultrashort TE; water concentration

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; MINERALS;

ADIABATIC INVERSIONS; CAROTID PLAQUES; MINERAL DENSITY; RELAXATION TIMES; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79952800913     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22682     Document Type: Article

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