Prospective Motion Corrected Time-of-flight MR Angiography at 3T
Xiaoke Wang1, Edward Herskovits1, and Thomas Ernst1
1Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United States
In this study, at 3T field strength MRA with optic PMC was tested in phantom and on a healthy volunteer and compared with MRA without PMC. This study demonstrated the potential of optic PMC in improving the quality of MRA on patients with difficulty holding still.
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5. Axial maximum intensity projections
(MIPs). The MIPs are of very high quality with detailed depiction of distal
vessels and excellent background suppression in the cases of no intentional
motion (A and B). The trained motion causes clear misregistration between
vessels in the brain (C, red arrow). Further, many distal vessels are lost on
the motion corrupted image (C, yellow
arrow), and there are artifactual stenoses (C, green arrow). With prospective
motion correction, the misregistration and the distal vessels are mostly
recovered, and pseudostenosis is
corrected.
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4. Sagittal (A, B, C, D) and coronal
(E,F,G,H) maximum intensity projections (MIPs). Without intentional motion (A,
B, E, F), activation of PMC does not substantially alter image quality. With
trained motion, some vessels in the middle
slab are obscured (yellow arrows) (C,G) without PMC. There are
artifactual stenoses between slabs (green arrows). There is also misalignment
between slabs (G, red arrow) and discontinuous major vessels, e.g. the middle
cerebral arteries (G). In comparison,
the obscured vessels are recovered when PMC was on and misalignment alleviated (D, H).