A new acquisition mode for 2D inflow refreshment angiography.
Time-of-flight angiography methods rely on blood/tissue contrast generated when fresh blood spins enter a partially saturated region. A series of projective angiographic views is generated by application of a maximum intensity projection algorithm to data acquired from a 3D volume. When the data are acquired as a set of 2D slices, the angiograms exhibit sensitivity to body motion, resulting in the generation of artifacts. We present a new 2D time-of-flight angiographic technique, STREAM, Suppressed Tissue with Refreshment Angiography Method. It exhibits low sensitivity to internal body motion, thus allowing acquisition of good quality, single average angiograms. To suppress the static tissue signal a unique "active" suppression strategy is employed. Additionally, to further suppress the lipid signal, the chemical-shift phenomenon is exploited in the STREAM sequence.
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Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.
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Pohost
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D000465:Algorithms; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement; D011673:Pulsatile Flow