Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1360-1366 , December 2008

An optimized 3D inversion recovery prepared fast spoiled gradient recalled sequence for carotid plaque hemorrhage imaging at 3.0 T

  • David C. Zhu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    • Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    • Cognitive Imaging Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Tel.: +1 517 353 9432; fax: +1 517 353 3745.
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  • Marina S. Ferguson

      Affiliations

    • Vascular Imaging Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    • ,
  • J. Kevin DeMarco

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Received 31 January 2008 ,Revised 2 May 2008 ,Accepted 2 May 2008.

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☆ Grant support: The Core Analytical Facility Fund and an IRGP grant from Michigan State University, an extramural research grant from Bracco Diagnostic, Inc., and financial support from GE Healthcare Systems.

PII: S0730-725X(08)00147-1

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.05.002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1360-1366 , December 2008

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