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Abstract #2923

A Dedicated Framework for Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging: Optimized 3D Dark-blood Imaging and Automated Post-processing

Patrick Vogel1, Ute Ludwig2, Esther Raithel3, Stephan Meckel4, Jürgen Hennig2, Thorsten A. Bley1, and Axel J. Krafft2

1Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 2Radiology, Medical Physics, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 3Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany, 4Neuroradiology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

MRI has been demonstrated as an indispensable imaging modality in the context of vasculitis – an inflammation of the arterial vessel wall. However, the extent of involvement of intracranial vessels is still part of on-going research. Depiction of intracranial vessels could be achieved with intracranial vessel wall imaging (VWI), which is, however, challenging because of the need for high-resolution within acceptable scan times. Further, the visual assessment of intracranial mural changes is also difficult because of the tortuous vessel course. Our work describes a framework for intracranial VWI with an optimized, compressed-sensing-accelerated sequence prototype and dedicated VWI post-processing.

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