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    Publication Date: 2018-03-16
    Description: Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of an improved motion and flow robust methodology for imaging the pulmonary vasculature using non-contrast-enhanced, free-breathing, golden-angle radial MRI. Methods Healthy volunteers ( n  = 10, age 46 ± 11 years, 50% female) and patients ( n  = 2, ages 27 and 84, both female) were imaged at 1.5 T using a Cartesian and golden-angle radial 2D balanced SSFP pulse sequence. The acquisitions were made under free breathing without contrast agent enhancement. The radial acquisitions were reconstructed at 3 temporal footprints. All series were scored from 1 to 5 for perceived diagnostic quality, artifact level, and vessel sharpness in multiple anatomical locations. In addition, vessel sharpness and blood-to-blood clot contrast were measured. Results Quantitative measurements showed higher vessel sharpness for golden-angle radial ( n  = 76, 0.79 ± 0.11 versus 0.71 ± 0.16, p  〈 .05). Blood-to-blood clot contrast was found to be 23% higher in golden-angle radial in the 2 patients. At comparable temporal footprints, golden-angle radial was scored higher for diagnostic quality (mean ± SD, 2.3 ± 0.7 versus 2.2 ± 0.6, p  〈 .01) and vessel sharpness (2.2 ± 0.8 versus 2.1 ± 0.5, p  〈 .01), whereas the artifact level did not differ (3.0 ± 0.9 versus 3.0 ± 1.0, p  = .80). The ability to retrospectively choose a temporal resolution and perform sliding-window reconstructions was demonstrated in patients. Conclusion In pulmonary artery imaging, the motion and flow robustness of a radial trajectory does both improve image quality over Cartesian trajectory in healthy volunteers, and allows for flexible selection of temporal footprints and the ability to perform real-time sliding window reconstructions, which could potentially provide further diagnostic insight.
    Print ISSN: 0740-3194
    Electronic ISSN: 1522-2594
    Topics: Medicine
    Published by Wiley-Blackwell
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