Nonenhanced extracranial carotid MR angiography using arterial spin labeling: Improved performance with pseudocontinuous tagging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 384-394

  Koktzoglou, Ioannis ^a,b   Gupta, Navyash ^a,b   Edelman, Robert R ^a,c  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; carotid angiography; MRA; pseudocontinuous ASL; pulsed ASL

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; PULSED ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 79960602896     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22628     Document Type: Article

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