Quantification of supra-aortic arterial wall inflammation in patients with arteritis using high resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: Initial results in correlation to [18F]-FDG PET/CT

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 594-599

  Cyran, Clemens C ^a   Sourbron, Steven ^a,b   Bochmann, Katja ^a   Habs, Maximilian ^a   Pfefferkorn, Thomas ^a   Rominger, Axel ^a   Raya, José G ^a,c   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Dichgans, Martin ^a   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Hacker, Marcus ^a   Saam, Tobias ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Division of Medical Physics   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

arteritis; correlation; DCE MRI; PET CT; reproducibility; supraaortic arteries

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOBUTROL;

AGED; ARTERITIS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 80051723110     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31821c44ed     Document Type: Article

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