Abstract #1752

Diagnosis and Follow-up of cervical vascular dissection using 3D MR vessel wall imaging: A Single Centre Experience of 65 Cases

Jin Zhang¹, Beibei Sun², Shenghao Ding², Jiaqi Tian², Jieqing Wan², Jilei Zhang³, Weibo Chen³, Xihai Zhao⁴, Yuan Chun⁵, Jianrong Xu², and Huilin Zhao²

¹Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, ²Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, ³Philips Healthcare, Shanghai, China, ⁴Biomedical Engineering & Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, ⁵University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Synopsis

Cervical artery dissection (CAD) is one of the important causes of ischemic stroke in young and middle-aged people[1; 2]. DSA remains the gold standard for identifying and characterizing carotid vascular dissections[3]. However, this imaging approach is known to have certain limitations, including invasiveness, ionizing radiation exposure, uneconomic, and inconvenience in follow-up. Recently, rapid three-dimensional MR vessel wall imaging (3D MR-VWI) techniques have been developed to visualize arterial lumen and outer wall boundaries non-invasively and without contrast administration. Non-invasive 3D MR-VWI has the potential to be a powerful tool for follow-up of cervical artery dissection.

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