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Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography

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Basic Principles of Cardiovascular MRI

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The Development of Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography represents a major success in the development of diagnostic imaging. In the short time since its inception CE-MRA, has replaced the more invasive X-ray angiography as the front line-diagnostic imaging modality. The prevalence of vascular disease in developed countries and the aging of the population has made CE-MRA a multi-billion dollar market. We discuss many of the newer approaches to CE-MRA that are reducing the scan time to allow for higher resolution scans with improved ease of use and diagnostic accuracy.

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  1. Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Parmede Vakil PhD, Octavia Bane PhD, Charles G. Cantrell & Timothy J. Carroll PhD

  2. Department of Radiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 737 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Parmede Vakil PhD, Charles G. Cantrell & Timothy J. Carroll PhD

  3. Mount Sinai Hospital, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Octavia Bane PhD

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Vakil, P., Bane, O., Cantrell, C.G., Carroll, T.J. (2015). Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography. In: Syed, M., Raman, S., Simonetti, O. (eds) Basic Principles of Cardiovascular MRI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22141-0_20

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