Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1329-1333 , December 2008

High-resolution intracranial MRA at 7T using autocalibrating parallel imaging: initial experience in vascular disease patients

  • Cornelius von Morze

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Derk D. Purcell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Suchandrima Banerjee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Duan Xu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Pratik Mukherjee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Douglas A. Kelley

      Affiliations

    • GE Healthcare Technologies, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Sharmila Majumdar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • ,
  • Daniel B. Vigneron

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2512, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, University of California, Box 2512, San Francisco, CA 94143-2512, USA. Tel.: +1 415 476 3343; fax: +1 415 514 4451.

Received 22 February 2008 ,Revised 3 April 2008 ,Accepted 4 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.04.002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1329-1333 , December 2008

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