Assessment of pulmonary artery stiffness using velocity-encoding magnetic resonance imaging: Evaluation of techniques

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 966-974

  Ibrahim, El Sayed H ^a   Shaffer, Jean M ^a   White, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artery stiffness; Flow area; Pulmonary artery; Pulse wave velocity; Transit time; Velocity encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR TIME TRANSIT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSE WAVE; RELIABILITY; VELOCITY ENCODING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 80051680311     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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