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Using a 1.5-T magnetic resonance (MR) imager equipped with 32 receiving channels and integrated parallel acquisition techniques, 37 patients underwent whole-body three-dimensional (3D) contrast-enhanced MR angiography (WB 3D CE MRA). The patients included had clinically documented or suspected peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD, n = 19), Takayasu arteritis (n = 8), polyarteritis nodosa (n = 1), type-B dissection (n = 4), thoracic and/or abdominal aneurysm (n = 5). Sixty-eight surface coils were employed to encompass the whole body. Four 3D CE MRA stations were acquired successively through automatic table moving. The spatial resolution was 1.6 × 1.0 mm and slice thickness was 1.5 mm for all stations. A total scan range of 188 cm was acquired. Overall image quality of each arterial segment and venous overlay were assessed. The depiction of various systemic arterial diseases was evaluated and compared, in 20 patients, with other imaging modalities. This WB 3D CE MRA yielded a detailed display of the arterial system with an average MR room time of 17.4 min. The image quality was considered diagnostic in 99.3% of the arterial segments. In 7 of 19 patients with PAOD, WB MRA showed additional vascular narrowing apart from peripheral arterial disease. In nine patients with vasculitis, WB MRA depicted luminal irregularity, narrowing or occlusion, aneurysm, and collateral circulation involving multiple vascular segments. WB MRA also clearly revealed the severity and extent of dissection and aortic aneurysm. In 20 cases where additional imaging investigations have been carried out, the vascular pathologies demonstrated by WB MRA agree with these additional imaging investigations.
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Lin, J., Chen, B., Wang, JH. et al. Whole-body three-dimensional contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) angiography with parallel imaging techniques on a multichannel MR system for the detection of various systemic arterial diseases. Heart Vessels 21, 395–398 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-006-0918-0
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