Noncontrast magnetic resonance angiography of the hand: Improved arterial conspicuity by multidirectional flow-sensitive dephasing magnetization preparation in 3D balanced steady-state free precession imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 515-523

  Fan, Zhaoyang ^a,b,c   Hodnett, Philip A ^b   Davarpanah, Amir H ^b   Scanlon, Timothy G ^b   Sheehan, John J ^b   Varga, John ^d   Carr, James C ^b   Li, Debiao ^a,b,c,e  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

flow sensitive; hand MRA; MR angiography; noncontrast MRA; systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 79959803624     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318217daee     Document Type: Article

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