Abstract #1206

Blood Flow Dynamics in DeBakey Type III Aortic Dissections using Phase Contrast MRI & 4D MRA: Quantification of Inter-Luminal Pressure Differences & Contrast Arrival Times

Christof Karmonik^1,2, Pietro Valsecchi³, Jean Bismuth¹, Cassidy Duran¹, Dipan J. Shah¹, Mark G. Davies¹, David Purdy⁴, Bill E. Kline³, Alan B. Lumsden¹

¹The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX, United States; ²The Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute, Houston, TX, United States; ³ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States; ⁴Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, PA, United States

True (TL) and false lumen (FL) inter-luminal pressure differences in DeBakey type III aortic dissections (AD)