Impact of T2 decay on carotid artery wall thickness measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1493-1498

  Qiao, Ye ^a   Steinman, David A ^b   Etesami, Maryam ^a   Martinez Marquese, Alex ^b   Lakatta, Edward G ^c   Wasserman, Bruce A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid artery; contrast enhanced MRI; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878221028     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23856     Document Type: Article

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