MR imaging of pulmonary embolism: Diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced 3D MR pulmonary angiography, contrast-enhanced low-flip angle 3D GRE, and nonenhanced free-induction FISP sequences

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 271-278

  Kalb, Bobby ^a,c   Sharma, Puneet ^a,c   Tigges, Stefan ^a   Ray, Gaye L ^a   Kitajima, Hiroumi D ^a   Costello, James R ^a,c   Chen, Zhengjia ^b   Martin, Diego R ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861309982     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12110224     Document Type: Article

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