Abstract #3259

Is It Necessary for Patients with Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion to Undergo 3D Head-neck Combined Vessel Wall Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging?

Jin Zhang¹, Huilin Zhao¹, Beibei Sun¹, Xiaosheng Liu¹, Xiaoyue Zhou², Xihai Zhao³, Chun Yuan⁴, and Jianrong Xu¹

¹Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, ²MR Collaboration, Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Shanghai, China, ³Biomedical Engineering & Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, ⁴Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Definite diagnosis of internal carotid artery occlusion no longer satisfies neurosurgeons’ treatment needs for vascular recanalization. This study sought to investigate what information provided by 3D head-neck combined vessel wall cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging could be useful for neurosurgeon to make the therapy plan. Our study turned out that 3D MR vessel wall imaging is capable of diagnosing internal carotid artery occlusion, and patients with short extent of occlusion are benefit from the vascular recanalization therapy. Our results suggest it is useful for those patients to undergo 3D MR vessel wall imaging for making their therapy plan.

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