Visualization of external carotid artery and its branches: Non–contrast‐enhanced MR angiography using balanced steady‐state free‐precession sequence and a time‐spatial labeling inversion pulse

To evaluate visibility of the external carotid artery (ECA) and its branches using three‐dimensional (3D) balanced steady‐state free‐precession (SSFP) MR angiography with a time‐spatial labeling inversion pulse (Time‐SLIP), and to provide an optimal value of the inversion time (TI).

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