Quantification of thoracic blood flow using volumetric magnetic resonance imaging with radial velocity encoding: In vivo validation

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 819-825

  Frydrychowicz, Alex ^a,b   Wieben, Oliver ^b   Niespodzany, Eric ^b   Reeder, Scott B ^b,c   Johnson, Kevin M ^b   François, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

4D flow MRI; Flow quantification; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phase contrast MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLAND ALTMAN ANALYSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; STEADY STATE; THORAX; THORAX BLOOD FLOW; TIME RESOLVED FOUR DIMENSIONAL FLOW SENSITIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888205631     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31829a4f2f     Document Type: Article

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