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Small vessels in the human brain: MR venography with deoxyhemoglobin as an intrinsic contrast agent
J R Reichenbach1, R Venkatesan, D J Schillinger
1Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Radiology
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
To assess a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method for depicting small veins in the brain, a three-dimensional, long echo time, gradient-echo sequence that depended on the paramagnetic property of deoxyhemoglobin was used. Veins with diameters smaller than a pixel were depicted. This MR imaging method is easy to implement and may prove helpful in the evaluation of venous diseases.