Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 12 , Pages 1466-1474 , December 2009

Improved In-Stent Lumen Visualization using Intravascular MRI and a Balanced Steady-State Free-Precession Sequence

  • Guillaume Gilbert, BSc

      Affiliations

    • Département de Radiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Hôpital Notre-Dame, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, Qc, Canada
    • ,
  • Gilles Soulez, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Département de Radiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Hôpital Notre-Dame, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, Qc, Canada
    • ,
  • Gilles Beaudoin, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Département de Radiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Hôpital Notre-Dame, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, Qc, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: G.B.

Received 29 May 2009 ,Accepted 6 July 2009.

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 Supported by a NSERC grant (#341617). G.G. is supported by a NSERC scholarship and G. S. by a research scholarship from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec.

PII: S1076-6332(09)00403-6

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.07.005

Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 12 , Pages 1466-1474 , December 2009

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