RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fast Whole-Brain 4D Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography with Velocity Encoding Using Undersampled Radial Acquisition and Highly Constrained Projection Reconstruction: Image-Quality Assessment in Volunteer Subjects
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP E47
OP E50
DO 10.3174/ajnr.A2048
VO 32
IS 3
A1 Wu, Y.
A1 Chang, W.
A1 Johnson, K.M.
A1 Velikina, J.
A1 Rowley, H.
A1 Mistretta, C.
A1 Turski, P.
YR 2011
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/32/3/E47.abstract
AB SUMMARY: We report on the image quality obtained by using fast contrast-enhanced whole-brain 4D radial MRA with 0.75-second temporal resolution, isotropic submillimeter spatial resolution, and velocity encoding (HYPRFlow). Images generated by HYPR-LR by using the velocity-encoded data as the constraining image were of diagnostic quality. In addition, we demonstrate that measurements of shear stress within the middle cerebral artery can be derived from the high-resolution 3D velocity data. AVarteriovenousCE-VIPRcontrast-enhanced VIPRHYPRhighly constrained back-projectionHYPRFlowHYPR with phase contrast as constraintHYPR-LRHYPR local reconstructionMCAmiddle cerebral arteryMIPmaximum intensity projectionMRAMR angiographyPC-VIPRphase-contrast VIPRSNRsignal intensity–to-noise ratioVIPRvastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstructionWSSwall shear stress