Noncontrast-enhanced renal angiography using multiple inversion recovery and alternating TR balanced steady-state free precession.
Magn Reson Med
; 70(2): 527-36, 2013 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Noncontrast-enhanced renal angiography techniques based on balanced steady-state free precession avoid external contrast agents, take advantage of high inherent blood signal from the T 2 / T 1 contrast mechanism, and have short steady-state free precession acquisition times. However, background suppression is limited; inflow times are inflexible; labeling region is difficult to define when tagging arterial flow; and scan times are long. To overcome these limitations, we propose the use of multiple inversion recovery preparatory pulses combined with alternating pulse repetition time balanced steady-state free precession to produce renal angiograms. Multiple inversion recovery uses selective spatial saturation followed by four nonselective inversion recovery pulses to concurrently null a wide range of background T 1 species while allowing for adjustable inflow times; alternating pulse repetition time steady-state free precession maintains vessel contrast and provides added fat suppression. The high level of suppression enables imaging in three-dimensional as well as projective two-dimensional formats, the latter of which has a scan time as short as one heartbeat. In vivo studies at 1.5 T demonstrate the superior vessel contrast of this technique.
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Assunto principal:
Artéria Renal
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Circulação Renal
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Algoritmos
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Interpretação de Imagem Assistida por Computador
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Angiografia por Ressonância Magnética
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Magn Reson Med
Assunto da revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos