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Abstract #1336

Simultaneous assessment of arterial pulsatility at different segments of cerebral arteries using multiband dual-VENC Phase-Contrast MRI

Jianing Tang1,2, Ning Jing3, Xiaoming Bi3, and Lirong Yan1,2
1Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 3Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Chicago, IL, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Blood Vessels, Blood vessels

Motivation: Arterial pulsatility is used for assessing cerebral vascular dysfunction. However, 2D PC-MRI and 4D flow have limitations including multiple separate scans, prolonged scan time, and flow saturation effects.

Goal(s): Our study aims to develop a Multi-band Dual-Venc PC-MRI (MB-DV) senquence to measure pulsatility for larger and distal small vessels within short scan time.

Approach: MB-DV scans were performed on 8 subjects to image velocity waveforms from ICA, M2, M3, LSA, and M4 simultaneously. For comparison, multiple standard single-slice PC-MRI were performed.

Results: MB-DV PC-MRI successfully measured flow waveforms and provided reliable PI measurements with no significant difference from PI measured by standard PC-MRI.

Impact: MD-DV PC-MRI enables simultaneously assessing arterial pulsatility at multiple vessel segments in the brain within a short scan time, which could be a potentially useful imaging tool to study pulsatility in the cerebral vascular tree for cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.

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