Four-dimensional flow-sensitive MRI of the thoracic aorta: 12- Versus 32-channel coil arrays

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 190-195

  Stalder, Aurélien F ^a,b   Dong, Zhiyuan ^a   Yang, Qi ^a   Bock, Jelena ^b   Hennig, Jürgen ^b   Markl, Michael ^b   Li, Kuncheng ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

32 channel coil; 4D flow sensitive MRI; aorta; GRAPPA; parallel imaging; phase contrast MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 83755225126     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22633     Document Type: Article

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