Characterization of carotid atherosclerosis with black-blood carotid plaque imaging using variable flip-angle 3D turbo spin-echo: Comparison with 2D turbo spin-echo sequences

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Takano, Koichi ^a   Yamashita, Shinnichi ^a   Takemoto, Koichiro ^a   Inoue, Tooru ^a   Sakata, Noriyuki ^a   Kuwabara, Yasuo ^a   Yoshimitsu, Kengo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Magnetic resonance imaging; Turbo spin echo; Variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE REFOCUSING FLIP ANGLE TURBO SPIN ECHO; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBO SPIN ECHO; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84856949467     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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