Assessment of flow instabilities in the healthy aorta using flow-sensitive MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 839-846

  Stalder, Aurélien F ^a,b   Frydrychowicz, Alex ^c   Russe, Max F ^b   Korvink, Jan G ^d   Hennig, Jürgen ^b,d   Li, Kuncheng ^a   Markl, Michael ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta; Phase contrast MRI; Reynolds number; Strouhal number; Turbulence; Womersley number

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FLOW SENSITIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROUHAL NUMBER; THORACIC AORTA; WOMERSLEY NUMBER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 79953251384     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22512     Document Type: Article

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