High resolution three dimensional intracranial arterial wall imaging at 3T using T1 weighted SPACE

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1026-1034

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhang, Na ^a   Wu, Jun ^b   Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Huang, Yanyan ^b   Liu, Xin ^a   Chung, Yiu Cho ^a  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY SHENZHEN HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Intracranial arterial wall; Intracranial plaque; Plaque enhancement; T1 weighted SPACE

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; T1 WEIGHTED SPACE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADULT; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84943275742     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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