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Patient Management and Referrals: The Impact of High-resolution Steady state MRA with Vasovist®

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Since its introduction in 1993, three-dimensional contrast-enhanced MR angiography (3D CEMRA) has made tremendous progress and now is routinely used in the assessment of arterial stenosis of the vasculature in many centers as an alternative to digital subtraction angiography (DSA) [1–4]. However, DSA still is considered the standard of reference due to its superior spatial resolution, even though it does not provide the advantages of a 3D data set in post-processing.

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

    Winfried A. Willinek & Dariusch R. Hadizadeh

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

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

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

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  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

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Willinek, W.A., Hadizadeh, D.R. (2008). Patient Management and Referrals: The Impact of High-resolution Steady state MRA with Vasovist® . 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_23

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