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Technical Aspects of Contrast Enhanced MRA — First Pass and Steady State

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Clinical Blood Pool MR Imaging

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Since its introduction in the mid 1990s [1], contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) has increased enormously in impact and today has replaced X-ray-based invasive catheter angiography for numerous diagnostic investigation [2]. From the beginning, MRA applications have been very demanding on the hardware requirements of MR imaging (MRI) scanners. Requiring state-of-the-art equipment, MRA has not just profited from the wide range of software and hardware developments of the recent past, but also has been a driving force behind numerous technical innovations.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45 122, Essen, Germany

    Harald H. Quick

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  1. Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Peter Debijelaan 25, 6229 HX, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Tim Leiner

  2. University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20251, Hamburg, Germany

    Mathias Goyen

  3. European Business Unit Diagnostic Imaging, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Muellerstrasse 178, 13353, Berlin, Germany

    Martin Rohrer

  4. Department of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim-University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Stefan Schönberg

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Quick, H.H. (2008). Technical Aspects of Contrast Enhanced MRA — First Pass and Steady State. In: Leiner, T., Goyen, M., Rohrer, M., Schönberg, S. (eds) Clinical Blood Pool MR Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77861-5_2

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