Three-dimensional flow-independent balanced steady-state free precession vessel wall MRI of the popliteal artery: Preliminary experience and comparison with flow-dependent black-blood techniques

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 696-701

  Kawaji, Keigo ^a,b   Nguyen, Thanh D ^b   Zou, Zhitong ^b   Reig, Beatriu ^b,c   Winchester, Priscilla A ^b   Shih, Andrew ^c   Spincemaille, Pascal ^b   Prince, Martin R ^b,c   Wang, Yi ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

black blood; flow independent; motion sensitizing magnetization preparation; popliteal artery; T2 prepared inversion recovery; vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE INVERSION RECOVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MOTION SENSITIZING MAGNETIZATION PREPARATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL PRESATURATION; STEADY STATE; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80051952339     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22663     Document Type: Article

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