Reproducibility of thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements with three-dimensional, variable flip angle (SPACE) MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 202-212

  Mihai, Georgeta ^a   Varghese, Juliet ^b   Lu, Bo ^a   Zhu, Hong ^c   Simonetti, Orlando P ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^b,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Clinical trial; Magnetic resonance imaging; Reproducibility; Variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA LUMEN AREA; ABDOMINAL AORTA OUTER WALL AREA; ABDOMINAL AORTA PERCENTAGE WALL VOLUME; ABDOMINAL AORTA TOTAL WALL VOLUME; ABDOMINAL AORTA WALL AREA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA LUMEN AREA; THORACIC AORTA OUTER WALL AREA; THORACIC AORTA PERCENTAGE WALL VOLUME; THORACIC AORTA TOTAL WALL VOLUME; THORACIC AORTA WALL AREA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84919352931     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24545     Document Type: Article

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