Intracranial vascular abnormalities: value of MR phase imaging to distinguish thrombus from flowing blood

L Nadel, IF Braun, KA Kraft… - American journal of …, 1990 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
The interpretation of conventional spin-echo and gradient-echo MR images of intracranial
vascular lesions can be complex and ambiguous owing to variable effects on image …

Detection of thrombus by using phase-image MR scans: ROC curve analysis

NJ Tavares, W Auffermann, JJ Brown… - American Journal of …, 1989 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Spin-echo phase images have been shown to be sensitive to blood flow and have been
used to differentiate slow flow from thrombus, with an apparent advantage in comparison …

Determination of blood flow direction using velocity-phase image display with 3-D phase-contrast MR angiography.

JR Pernicone, JE Siebert, TA Laird… - American journal …, 1992 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
The authors describe their use of phase-contrast MRA to depict vascular anatomy and to
define the direction of blood flow. Documentation of flow reversal can provide information …

Vascular intracranial lesions: applications of gradient-echo MR imaging.

SW Atlas, AS Mark, EK Fram, RI Grossman - Radiology, 1988 - pubs.rsna.org
To investigate the role of the gradient-echo (GRE) technique in clinical intracranial magnetic
resonance (MR) imaging, 63 patients with a variety of vascular intracranial lesions were …

Intracranial circulation: preliminary clinical results with three-dimensional (volume) MR angiography.

TJ Masaryk, MT Modic, JS Ross, PM Ruggieri, GA Laub… - Radiology, 1989 - pubs.rsna.org
The authors assessed the clinical utility of a magnetic resonance angiography technique in
the evaluation of intracranial circulation. Eighteen patients with a low likelihood of …

MR flow imaging in vascular malformations using gradient recalled acquisition.

WM Needell, KR Maravilla - American journal of …, 1988 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Twenty patients with known or suspected intracranial vascular lesions were evaluated with
gradient recalled MR (GRASS) imaging, and the results were compared with those obtained …

Intracranial aneurysms and vascular malformations: comparison of time-of-flight and phase-contrast MR angiography.

J Huston 3rd, DA Rufenacht, RL Ehman, DO Wiebers - Radiology, 1991 - pubs.rsna.org
Twenty-seven patients with 14 aneurysms and 17 vascular malformations were each
examined with both time-of-flight (TF) and phase-contrast (PC) magnetic resonance …

Hyperintense thrombus on GRASS MR images: potential pitfall in flow evaluation.

DM Yousem, J Balakrishnan… - American journal of …, 1990 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Gradient-recalled acquisition in the steady state (GRASS) MR images, obtained in four
patients with angiographic evidence of successful occlusion of cerebral arteriovenous …

Cerebral blood flow: assessment with dynamic contrast-enhanced T2*-weighted MR imaging at 1.5 T.

RR Edelman, HP Mattle, DJ Atkinson, T Hill, JP Finn… - Radiology, 1990 - pubs.rsna.org
The authors assessed regional cerebral blood flow dynamics with magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging enhanced with gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA). After bolus …

Comparison of time-of-flight and phase-contrast MR neuroangiographic techniques.

J Huston 3rd, RL Ehman - Radiographics, 1993 - pubs.rsna.org
Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography constitutes a group of evolving MR imaging
techniques that can be used to directly image flow in arteries, veins, and cerebrospinal fluid …