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Abstract #3095

Dynamic 3D Angiography with Pseudo Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling(PCASL) and Accelerated 3D Radial Acquisition

Huimin Wu1, Walter F. Block2, Patrick A. Turski3, Charles A. Mistretta1, Kevin M. Johnson1

1Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison


4D intracranial angiography with a pseudo continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (PCASL) tagging scheme and accelerated radial sampling pattern has been implemented. A feasibility study has been done on healthy volunteers and AVM patients and time-resolved images were acquired with temporal resolution of 200 msec. It has been demonstrated that the dynamic PCASL-VIPR technique can acquire a time series of dynamic inflow images with high 3D isotropic spatial resolution, and whole head coverage in a 7-minute scan. Quantitative analysis using time-of-arrival maps can also be performed on the time-resolved images.