Time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography at 7 T using venous saturation pulses with reduced flip angles

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 445-450

  Johst, Sören ^a,b   Wrede, Karsten H ^a,b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b   Maderwald, Stefan ^a  

^a ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 T MRI; MR angiography; saturation; time of flight; VERSE

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS SATURATION PULSE; VERSE ALGORITHM;

EID: 84863686088     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31824ef21f     Document Type: Article

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