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01-01-2013 | Poster presentation
Black-blood dynamic contrast-enhanced carotid artery wall MRI with SRDIR preparation
Authors:
Zhaoyang Fan, Jingsi Xie, Yi He, Yutaka Natsuaki, Ning Jin, Daniel S Berman, Debiao Li
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Inflammation plays a major role in atherosclerotic plaque progression and disruption [1]. Dynamic gadolinium contrast-enhanced (DCE) vessel wall imaging has been used to compute a set of contrast kinetic parameters that may characterize the extent of inflammation of carotid plaques [2-4]. However, previous DCE techniques are limited to a 2D bright-blood acquisition and thus the accuracy of wall signal assessment could be compromised. This work aimed to develop a 3D black-blood DCE technique. …