Suvai Gunasekaran1, Hassan Haji-Valizadeh2, Bradley Allen1, Ryan Avery1, and Daniel Kim1
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
9.6-fold accelerated inversion-recovery
(IR) contrast-enhanced thoracic MR angiography significantly reduced scan time
by half compared to the clinical IR navigated CE-MRA while maintaining
clinically acceptable image quality.
Figure 3. Representative
images for CE-MRA for six patients. (A-C) Patients with clinical IR-NAV CE-MRA and (D-F) patients with accelerated IR CE-MRA.
Figure 2. Representative
images for CE-MRA for two patients. Patient 1 received the (A) clinical Breath-Held
ECG-gated CE-MRA and the (B) clinical IR-NAV CE-MRA. Patient 2 received the (C) clinical Breath-Held ECG-gated CE-MRA and the (D) accelerated IR CE-MRA.