Analysis of pulse wave velocity in the thoracic aorta by flow-sensitive four-dimensional MRI: Reproducibility and correlation with characteristics in patients with aortic atherosclerosis

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1162-1168

  Markl, Michael ^a,b   Wallis, Wolf ^a   Strecker, Christoph ^a   Gladstone, Beryl Primrose ^a   Vach, Werner ^a   Harloff, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Blood flow; Flow sensitive 4D MRI; Phase contrast; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOW SENSITIVE FOUR DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859790701     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22856     Document Type: Article

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