Contrast enhancement in TOF cerebral angiography at 7 T using saturation and MT pulses under SAR constraints: Impact of verse and sparse pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 188-197

  Schmitter, Sebastian ^a   Bock, Michael ^b   Johst, Sören ^b   Auerbach, Edward J ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

MR angiography; Radiofrequency power; Specific absorption rate; Time of flight; Ultrahigh field MRI; Variable rate selective excitation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MR ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TIME OF FLIGHT; ULTRA-HIGH FIELD MRIS;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TIME OF FLIGHT CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862262302     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23226     Document Type: Article

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