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Abstract #2591

Quantitative Description of Vessel Geometry from Microscopic MR Skin Imaging

Elmar Laistler1, Ewald Moser1

1MR Center of Excellence, Center for Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria


We present a technique to obtain quantitative parameters describing the geometry of the cutaneous vessel tree. Data is obtained from MR microscopy of the human skin in vivo by transforming the segmented vessel data into a graph. The technique might help in diagnosis of vascular inflammation or malformation and can be used for treatment monitoring due to its non-invasiveness.