Hyperecho PROPELLER-MRI: Application to rapid high-resolution motion-insensitive T₂-weighted black-blood imaging of the carotid arterial vessel wall and plaque

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• 作者：Masami Yoneyama ; Masanobu Nakamura ; Makoto Obara ; Tomoyuki Okuaki ; Ryuji Sashi ; Seishi Sawano ; Satoshi Tatsuno and Marc Van Cauteren
• 刊名：Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：45
• 期：2
• 页码：515-524
• 全文大小：552K
• ISSN：1522-2586

文摘

To demonstrate the usefulness of hyperecho and PROPELLER (HEP) for carotid arterial vessel wall imaging by using a quantitative comparison with conventional methods. PROPELLER is a motion-insensitive turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence and has recently been utilized in magnetic resonance (MR) plaque imaging instead of double inversion recovery TSE (DIR-TSE). Wider blade-width, higher k-space density, and an improved blood suppression effect result in better image quality. In this study we introduce a new combination of HEP.