Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1311-1318 , November 2010

Highly undersampled supraaortic MRA at 3.0 T: initial results with parallel imaging in two directions using a 16-channel neurovascular coil and parallel imaging factors up to 16

  • Guido M. Kukuk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 22828715960; fax: +49 22828715598.
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  • Dariusch R. Hadizadeh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Jürgen Gieseke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
    • Philips Healthcare, 5680 Best, The Netherlands
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  • Marcus von Falkenhausen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Ingrid Böhm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Renate Semrau

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Horst Urbach

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Arne Koscielny

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Frauke Verrel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Kai Wilhelm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Hans H. Schild

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Winfried A. Willinek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany

Received 30 December 2009 ,Revised 10 March 2010 ,Accepted 10 June 2010.

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PII: S0730-725X(10)00165-7

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1311-1318 , November 2010

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