3D high-resolution contrast enhanced MRI of carotid atheroma - a technical update

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 594-597

  Zhu, Chengcheng ^a   Sadat, Umar ^b   Patterson, Andrew J ^a   Teng, Zhongzhao ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^a   Graves, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D Fast Spin Echo; Carotid atheroma; Fibrous cap; Hemorrhage; Lipid core

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL; LIPID; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID DUPLEX IMAGING; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899079020     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.01.019     Document Type: Article

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