期刊
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
卷 31, 期 2, 页码 502-509出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22049
关键词
whole body MRA; dark blood; atherosclerosis; 3D MRI; DB-WBMRA
资金
- Siemens Medical Solutions
Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of the dark blood fast spin echo (FSE) T1-weighted-Sampling Perfection with Application of optimized Contrasts using different flip angle Evolution (T1w-SPACE) sequence in assessing whole body arterial wall information from the extracranial carotids to the popliteal artery. Materials and Methods: Twenty-eight subjects were subjected to noncontrast, dark blood whole body magnetic resonance angiography (DB-WBMRA) using a T1w-SPACE sequence optimized for each of the individual stations: carotid artery. thoracic aorta. abdominal aorta. and thigh/superficial femoral artery (SFA). Image quality/vessel wall visualization and the time required to image the four stations were evaluated. Two observers checked the reproducibility of vessel wall depiction by performing quantitative measurements in registered initial and repeat studies (six subjects) of vessel wall and lumen area at 17 locations along the arterial tree. Results: In 25 of the 28 scanned subjects, dark blood arterial images acquired in approximately 1 hour total imaging time allowed whole body arterial vessel wall visualization. Quantitative measurements showed high correlation between the initial and repeat studies for each of the observers as well as high interobserver reproducibility (r > 0.95; P < 0.01). Conclusion: DB-WBMRA using T1w-SPACE is feasible and can be performed with a high degree of reliability.
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