DCE-MRI of the human kidney using BLADE: A feasibility study in healthy volunteers

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 868-874

  Lietzmann, Florian ^a   Zöllner, Frank G ^a   Attenberger, Ulrike I ^b   Haneder, Stefan ^b   Michaely, Henrik J ^b   Schad, Lothar R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

abdominal imaging; BLADE; DCE MRI; kidney; motion correction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858787736     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23509     Document Type: Article

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