Open AccessEvaluation of 3D multi-contrast carotid vessel wall MRI: a comparative study
Author(s) -
H. Wei,
Miaoqi Zhang,
Yunduo Li,
Xihai Zhao,
Gádor Cantón,
Jie Sun,
Dongxiang Xu,
Zhen Zhou,
Shuo Chen,
Marina Ferguson,
Thomas S. Hatsukami,
Rui Li,
Chun Yuan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims.2019.09.11
Subject(s) - medicine , reproducibility , stenosis , nuclear medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , carotid endarterectomy , lumen (anatomy) , radiology , contrast (vision) , computer science , surgery , chemistry , artificial intelligence , chromatography
Conventional reference multi-contrast black-blood (BB) MRI can be used for measuring luminal stenosis severity and plaque components, and its performance has been validated by intra- and inter-reader reproducibility test and histology. Recently, a set of 3D multi-contrast BB sequences have been developed, but its accuracy and reliability have not been well investigated. In this study, we evaluated the performance of 3D multi-contrast MRI (3D-MERGE, T2-VISTA, and SNAP) by comparing it with reference multi-contrast vessel wall MRI and assessing the inter-reader reproducibility.