Phase enhancement for time-of-flight and flow-sensitive black-blood MR angiography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-447

  Kimura, Tokunori ^a   Ikedo, Masato ^a   Takemoto, Shuhei ^a  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

angiography; black blood; flow sensitive; hybrid; MR; phase; time of flight

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COSINE TRANSFORMS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FLOW SENSITIVE; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; HYBRID; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; PHASE; PHASE ENHANCEMENT; TIME OF FLIGHT;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW SENSITIVE BLACK BLOOD MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960577543     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22831     Document Type: Article

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