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Abstract #2574

Feasibility of non-gated Single 20-second Breath-Hold non-contrast-enhanced MR angiography of renal artery with 3D bSSFP: Comparison with Respiratory Gated time-spatial labeling inversion pulse (Time-SLIP)

AKIYOSHI YAMAMOTO1, KATSUMI NAKAMURA1,2, HIROKI MATOBA1, YUJI SHINTANI1, DAIJI UCHIYAMA1, SEIGO YOSHIDA1, and MITSUE MIYAZAKI3

1Radiolgy, Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2Nexus Image Lab, Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan, 3Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA, Vernon Hills, IL, United States

A non-gated single 20-sec breath-hold non-contrast-enhanced 3D-MRA technique using bSSFP was developed and the feasibility of the proposed method for the visualization of renal artery was compared using respiratory gated non-contrast-enhanced time-SLIP 3D-MRA with several minutes of scan time. The single breath-hold bSSFP-MRA technique was optimized in flip angle and the number of segmentations to obtain excellent renal blood signal with maintaining about 20 sec breath-holding. The proposed bSSFP-MRA technique gave equal to time-SLIP MRA in the visualization of renal artery.

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