Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 3, Pages 486-491Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.06.005
Keywords
Coronary magnetic resonance angiography; Parallel imaging; Whole-heart
Funding
- NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Japan
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Purpose: To evaluate visualization of the whole-heart coronary arteries accelerated with parallel imaging (PI) applied in two-dimension (213) in comparison with one-dimension (ID). Materials and methods: Seventeen healthy subjects were studied with a 1.5-T scanner equipped with a whole body phased array coil system and 16-channel receivers. Using 16 coil elements, whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) was acquired in two conditions of ID-PI and 2D-PI. The former scan was accelerated in phase direction by factor of 2 and the latter in phase and slice directions by factors of 2.5 and 2, respectively. Visualized length of right coronary artery (RCA), left anterior descending artery (LAD), and left circumflex artery (LCX) was measured. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) was also measured. The CMRA quality was assessed in segment-wise with a five-point scale. Results: The average scan time decreased to 5.3 +/- 2.2 min in 2D-PI from 11.6 +/- 3.5 min in I D-PI, reducing the scan time to 45%. The visualized length, SNR, and CNR in average were smaller for images of 2D-PI compared with those of ID-PI, however, statistically significant results were observed only in RCA (P <0.05). Score reduction of 2D-PI image quality was limited to 0.34 in average, and only two Out of fifteen segments (#2, 6) showed significant score deterioration (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Compared with the relatively limited degree of image degradation, 2D-PI offered a large reduction of the acquisition time, which is of large benefit in clinical situations. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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