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Black‐Blood Contrast in Cardiovascular MRI
Author(s) -
Henningsson Markus,
Malik Shaihan,
Botnar Rene,
Castellanos Daniel,
Hussain Tarique,
Leiner Tim
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.27399
Subject(s) - contrast (vision) , blood flow , magnetic resonance imaging , computer science , weighting , biomedical engineering , dynamic contrast enhanced mri , medicine , radiology , computer vision
MRI is a versatile technique that offers many different options for tissue contrast, including suppressing the blood signal, so‐called black‐blood contrast. This contrast mechanism is extremely useful to visualize the vessel wall with high conspicuity or for characterization of tissue adjacent to the blood pool. In this review we cover the physics of black‐blood contrast and different techniques to achieve blood suppression, from methods intrinsic to the imaging readout to magnetization preparation pulses that can be combined with arbitrary readouts, including flow‐dependent and flow‐independent techniques. We emphasize the technical challenges of black‐blood contrast that can depend on flow and motion conditions, additional contrast weighting mechanisms (T 1 , T 2 , etc.), magnetic properties of the tissue, and spatial coverage. Finally, we describe specific implementations of black‐blood contrast for different vascular beds. Level of Evidence 5 Technical Efficacy Stage 5