Real-time interactive duplex MR measurements: application in neurovascular imaging

Wetzel, Stephan G., Lee, Vivian S., Tan, Andrew G. S., Heid, Oliver, Cha, Soonmee, Johnson, Glyn and Rofsky, Neil M. (2001) Real-time interactive duplex MR measurements: application in neurovascular imaging. American Journal of Roentgenology, 177 (3). pp. 703-707. ISSN 0361-803X

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Real-time interactive duplex MR imaging is a new phase-contrast MR imaging technique that enables the quantification and display of flow velocities in real time without the need for cardiac gating. We investigated the feasibility and reliability of the technique to assess hemodynamic information both in vitro and in vivo in the carotid arteries and in the venous sinuses. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Real-time interactive duplex MR measurements (TR/TE, 53/27; flip angle, 90 degrees; encoding velocity, 100 or 150 cm/sec) were performed in vitro with a steady-flow phantom and in 10 healthy volunteers in whom common and internal carotid artery velocities were measured. In eight volunteers, velocity measurements were also performed in the superior sagittal sinus during both normal breathing and hyperventilation. Time-velocity plots were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively and compared with findings from conventional segmented k-space phase-contrast MR imaging and Doppler sonography. RESULTS: Velocity determinations for real-time duplex MR and conventional phase-contrast MR imaging showed an in vitro correlation of 0.99 and an in vivo correlation of 0.83 (carotid arteries) and 0.76 (venous sinus). Velocity measurements in the carotid arteries with real-time MR imaging were significantly lower than those obtained with conventional phase-contrast MR (averaged, 7.8%; p = 0.003) or sonography (23.7%, p <0.001), likely because of volume averaging. Small but significant velocity changes occurring in the venous sinus during hyperventilation were reliably identified with both MR techniques. CONCLUSION: Real-time interactive duplex MR imaging can be effectively applied in neurovascular imaging to obtain hemodynamic information.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cancer Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2015 11:00
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 01:15
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54443
DOI:	10.2214/ajr.177.3.1770703

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