Pim van Ooij1,2, Annetje Gudon1,2,
Joppe Schneiders1, Marcel C. M. Rutten3, Henk
Marquering1,2, Charles B. Majoie1, Ed vanBavel2,
Aart J. Nederveen1
1Radiology, Academic Medical
Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2Biomedical Engineering &
Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3Biomedical
Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
In this study 3D phase contrast MRI measurements at different spatial resolutions in a real-size intracranial aneurysm phantom are performed to study the loss of flow information when performing PC-MRI at low resolutions. It is observed that flow properties such as vortices can be measured at low resolutions. Voxel-by-voxel differences between high and interpolated low resolutions, however, increase when decreasing resolution. Furthermore, when velocity derivatives at the phantom wall, needed for wall shear stress estimations, are calculated, small as well as large differences are found. This can result in unreliable wall shear stress estimations.
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