Improved cerebral time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography at 7 Tesla - Feasibility study and preliminary results using optimized venous saturation pulses

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Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Wrede, Karsten H ^a,b   Johst, Sören ^a,b   Dammann, Philipp ^a,b   Özkan, Neriman ^b   Mönninghoff, Christoph ^b   Kraemer, Markus ^c   Maderwald, Stefan ^a,b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b,d   Sure, Ulrich ^b   Umutlu, Lale ^a,b   Schlamann, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Hospital   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD GAS PARAMETERS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIAL SINUS; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEAD COIL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW FLIP ANGLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NEUROSURGERY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; VARIABLE RATE SELECTIVE EXCITATION ALGORITHM; VENOUS SATURATION PULSE; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CEREBRUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84907222776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106697     Document Type: Article

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