High spatial resolution coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 7 T: Comparison with low spatial resolution bright blood imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 326-330

  Bizino, Maurice B ^a   Bonetti, Cosimo ^a   Van Der Geest, Rob J ^a   Versluis, Maarten J ^a   Webb, Andrew G ^a   Lamb, Hildo J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

7 T; coronary artery; high spatial resolution; magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL LENGTH; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BLOOD VESSEL SHARPNESS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84898439327     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000047     Document Type: Article

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