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Non‐contrast‐enhanced renal and abdominal MR angiography using velocity‐selective inversion preparation
Author(s) -
Shin Taehoon,
Worters Pauline W.,
Hu Bob S.,
Nishimura Dwight G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.24356
Subject(s) - medicine , renal artery , abdominal aorta , angiography , radiology , nephrogenic systemic fibrosis , artery , aorta , kidney , cardiology , magnetic resonance imaging
Abstract Non‐contrast‐enhanced MR angiography is a promising alternative to the established contrast‐enhanced approach as it reduces patient discomfort and examination costs and avoids the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. Inflow‐sensitive slab‐selective inversion recovery imaging has been used with great promise, particularly for abdominal applications, but has limited craniocaudal coverage due to inflow time constraints. In this work, a new non‐contrast‐enhanced MR angiography method using velocity‐selective inversion preparation is developed and applied to renal and abdominal angiography. Based on the excitation k‐space formalism and Shinnar‐Le‐Roux transform, a velocity‐selective excitation pulse is designed that inverts stationary tissues and venous blood while preserving inferiorly flowing arterial blood. As the magnetization of the arterial blood in the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries is well preserved during the magnetization preparation, artery visualization over a large abdominal field of view is achievable with an inversion delay time that is chosen for optimal background suppression. Healthy volunteer tests demonstrate that the proposed method significantly increases the extent of visible arteries compared with the slab‐selective approach, covering renal arteries through iliac arteries over a craniocaudal field of view of 340 mm. Magn Reson Med, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.