Intracranial artery velocity measurement using 4D PC MRI at 3 T: Comparison with transcranial ultrasound techniques and 2D PC MRI

Neuroradiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 389-398

  Meckel, Stephan ^a   Leitner, Lorenz ^b   Bonati, Leo H ^b   Santini, Francesco ^b   Schubert, Tilman ^b   Stalder, Aurelien F ^c   Lyrer, Philippe ^b   Markl, Michael ^d   Wetzel, Stephan G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

4D PC MRI; Cerebral circulation; Intracranial artery velocity measurement; Phase contrast (PC) MR imaging; Transcranial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL COLOR CODED DUPLEX ECHOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879690569     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-012-1103-z     Document Type: Article

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