Comparison of carotid plaque ulcer detection using contrast- enhanced and time-of-flight MRA techniques

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 177-184

  Etesami, M ^a   Hoi, Y ^b   Steinman, D A ^b   Gujar, S K ^a   Nidecker, A E ^c   Astor, B C ^d   Portanova, A ^e   Qiao, Y ^a   Abdalla, W M A ^a   Wasserman, B A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID PLAQUE ULCER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873646174     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3132     Document Type: Article

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