Time-resolved three-dimensional magnetic resonance velocity mapping of chronic thoracic aortic dissection: A preliminary investigation

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-99

  Amano, Yasuo ^a   Sekine, Tetsuro ^a   Suzuki, Yuriko ^b   Tanaka, Keiji ^a   Takagi, Ryo ^a   Kumita, Shinichiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D phase contrast; Thoracic aortic dissection; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84862833110     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.10.93     Document Type: Article

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