Isotropic 3D black blood MRI of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall and intraluminal thrombus

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 18-25

  Zhu, Chengcheng ^a   Haraldsson, Henrik ^a   Faraji, Farshid ^a   Owens, Christopher ^b   Gasper, Warren ^b   Ahn, Sinyeob ^c   Liu, Jing ^a   Laub, Gerhard ^c   Hope, Michael D ^a   Saloner, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

3D black blood; Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Blood suppression; Intra luminal thrombus; Vessel wall MRI

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRALUMINAL THROMBUS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBUS; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84952791285     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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