Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1326-1332 , December 2009

Contrast-enhanced MR angiography with frequency-dependent mask subtraction

  • Jiang Du

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Received 20 August 2008 ,Revised 27 February 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00123-4

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.014

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1326-1332 , December 2009

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