Pulmonary MRA: differentiation of pulmonary embolism from truncation artefact.

Purpose: Truncation artefact (Gibbs ringing) causes central signal drop within vessels in pulmonary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) that can be mistaken for emboli, reducing diagnostic accuracy for pulmonary embolism (PE). We propose a quantitative approach to differentiate truncation artefact...

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Published in:	European Radiology Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 1942 - 1950
Main Authors:	Bannas, Peter, Schiebler, Mark L, Motosugi, Utaroh, François, Christopher J, Reeder, Scott B, Nagle, Scott K
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2014
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost