Fast 3D isotropic imaging of the aortic vessel wall by application of 2D spatially selective excitation and a new way of inversion recovery for black blood imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 547-555

  Mooiweer, Ronald ^a   Sbrizzi, Alessandro ^a   El Aidi, Hamza ^a   Eikendal, Anouk L M ^a   Raaijmakers, Alexander ^a   Visser, Fredy ^a,b   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^a   Leiner, Tim ^a   Luijten, Peter R ^a   Hoogduin, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

2D spatially selective excitation; aorta; black blood; subject specific RF pulse design; TFE sequence; vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; RECOVERY; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

AORTA; RF PULSE DESIGNS; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TFE SEQUENCE; VESSEL WALLS;

BLOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLACK BLOOD IMAGING; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; DESCENDING AORTA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; REDUCED FIELD OF VIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME EFFICIENT ISOTROPIC IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPATIALLY SELECTIVE EXCITATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; AORTA; ARTIFACT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; AORTA; ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE;

EID: 84924351951     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25599     Document Type: Article

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