The detection of vessel in MRI depends on the imaging resolution used. Hence, subsequent quantification with vessel densities and vessel distance mapping (VDM) is resolution dependent. In this study, the resolution dependency of both metrics was evaluated for arteries and veins in deep gray matter regions by retrospective downsampling of high-resolution vessel images. Quantitative comparison shows that with decreasing resolution the estimated vessel distances increase, while vessel densities decline. The resolution dependency of vessel densities and distances can be modeled linearly. The here found scaling factors may improve inter-study comparability of vessel densities and VDM.
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