Contrast-enhanced MR angiography: the effects of k-space truncation on luminal representation in a carotid artery phantom model

ER Melhem, JM Serfaty, L Jones… - American journal …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Using carotid bifurcation phantom models with different degrees of stenoses, we evaluated
the accuracy of vessel lumen representation on MR images obtained from the inverse …

Effects of doubling and tripling the spatial resolution in standard 3D contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of carotid artery disease

B Hnatiuk, DJ Emery, AH Wilman - Journal of Magnetic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To determine whether three‐dimensional (3D) contrast‐enhanced MR angiography
(CE‐MRA) of carotid artery disease may be more effective when performed at double or …

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR angiography and MR imaging of the carotid artery: high-resolution sequences in different acquisition planes

S Aoki, H Nakajima, H Kumagai… - American journal of …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: First-pass contrast-enhanced MR angiography has
become the technique of choice for studying the carotid bifurcation, but this method has …

Contrast-enhanced MR angiography in patients with carotid artery stenosis: comparison of two different techniques with an unenhanced 2D time-of-flight sequence

HR Jäger, EA Moore, M Bynevelt, S Coley, P Mounfield… - Neuroradiology, 2000 - Springer
Conventional time-of-flight (TOF) MR angiography (MRA) in carotid artery stenosis relies on
flow-related enhancement to produce signal from vascular structures. Intravoxel phase …

Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the carotid artery using 3D time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics: comparison with real-time fluoroscopic triggered 3D …

S Naganawa, T Koshikawa, H Fukatsu… - Radiation …, 2001 - europepmc.org
Purpose To evaluate contrast-enhanced MR angiography using the 3D time-resolved
imaging of contrast kinetics technique (3D-TRICKS) by direct comparison with the …

Three-dimensional isotropic contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the carotid artery using sensitivity-encoding and random elliptic centric k-space filling: technique …

G Riedy, X Golay, ER Melhem - Neuroradiology, 2005 - Springer
We present a study that helped optimize a three-dimensional isotropic contrast-enhanced
MR angiographic (CE-MRA) technique, using sensitivity encoding (SENSE) and random …

Contrast-enhanced 3D MR DSA of the carotid artery bifurcation: preliminary study of comparison with unenhanced 2D and 3D time-of-flight MR angiography.

DS Willig, PA Turski, R Frayne, VB Graves, FR Korosec… - Radiology, 1998 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To compare the delineation of stenosis at the carotid artery bifurcation on three-
dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance (MR) digital subtraction angiographic (DSA) images …

Sources of variability in measuring carotid stenosis on time-resolved contrast-enhanced MR angiograms

P Turski - American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2002 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
The assessment of proximal internal carotid stenosis by using magnetic resonance
angiography (MRA) has been substantially improved with the addition of time-resolved …

Evaluation of classic 2D time-of-flight MR angiography in the depiction of severe carotid stenosis

JK DeMarco, J Huston III… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity, specificity, and clinical
utility of classic 2D time-of-flight MR angiography (acquired with derated gradients) as an aid …

Use of three-dimensional MR angiography for tracking a contrast bolus in the carotid artery

ER Melhem, SD Caruthers… - American journal …, 1999 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Contrast-bolus tracking in the carotid bifurcation was accomplished using an MR
angiographic technique with a 3D turbo field-echo readout (TR/TE= 6/3, flip angle= 50°) …