A pitfall of the volume rendering method with 3D time-of-flight MRA: A case of a branching vessel at the aneurysm neck

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-56

  Goto, Masami ^a   Kunimatsu, Akira ^b   Shojima, Masaaki ^b   Abe, Osamu ^c   Aoki, Shigeki ^d   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Mori, Harushi ^b   Ino, Kenji ^a   Yano, Keiichi ^a   Saito, Nobuhito ^b   Ohtomo, Kuni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Time of flight; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84875627068     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.2012-0043     Document Type: Article

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