We sought to quantitatively investigate the performances on blood suppression efficiency, wall-lumen CNR and plaque burden measurements for the RECS-3D MERGE sequence in carotid vessel wall MR imaging.
Twelve patients with carotid artery stenosis were recruited in this study. Lumen SNR and wall-lumen CNR were calculated and plaque burden measurements (i.e., lumen area, wall area, mean wall thickness and maximum wall thickness) were measured.
The RECS-3D MERGE was quantitatively demonstrated to have the ability to provide the comparable blood suppression, black-blood image quality and the highly correlated morphometry with the current plaque imaging protocol. The RECS-3D MERGE could be a promising tool for plaque burden measurement in a short scan time.
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