A rupture of intracranial aneurysms may cause serious cerebral diseases such as cerebral stroke. Since it is hard to recover completely from stroke, finding unruptured aneurysms and medical and/or surgical treatment before rupture are efficient to patients. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), an imaging protocol using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can provide detailed section images of ce...

Pulmonary vein imaging is integral for planning atrial fibrillation ablation procedures. We tested the feasibility of quantifying pulmonary vein ostial diameter using two-dimensional cine cardiac magnetic resonance (2D cine CMR) and three-dimensional magnetic resonance angiography (3D MRA). Nine patients with a history of atrial fibrillation and 20 normal volunteers underwent 2D cine CMR and co...

Target Audience: Clinicians and researchers working with dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRA (CE-MRA). Purpose: Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) has become a widely accepted tool for clinical evaluation of complex vascular hemodynamics. To allow for high spatial and temporal resolution, view-sharing techniques 1,2 are commonly used whereby the k-space center is updated more frequently tha...

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using an ultrasound contrast agent test bolus to determine optimum bolus timing for three-dimensional (3D) gadolinium (Gd)-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Small test doses of ultrasound contrast agent (0.3 ml Optison) were injected intravenously followed immediately by a 20 ml saline flush. Arrival of the contrast agen...

With recent improvement in hardware and software techniques, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has undergone significant changes in technique and approach. The advent of 3.0 T magnets has allowed reduction in exogenous contrast dose without compromising overall image quality. The use of novel intravascular contrast agents substantially increases the image windows and decreases contrast dose....

Precise segmentation of three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images can be a very useful computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tool for clinical routines. Level sets based evolution schemes, which have been shown to be effective and easy to implement for many segmentation applications, are being applied to MRA data sets. In this paper, we present a segmentation scheme for accura...

BACKGROUND The use of contrast media and the time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics (TRICKS) technique have some theoretical advantages over time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) in the follow-up of intracranial aneurysms after endovascular treatment. We prospectively compared the diagnostic performance of TRICKS and TOF-MRA with digital subtracted angiography (DSA) in the...

OBJECTIVES The goal of the present study was to develop a strategy for three-dimensional (3D) volume acquisition along the major axes of the coronary arteries. BACKGROUND For high-resolution 3D free-breathing coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), coverage of the coronary artery tree may be limited due to excessive measurement times associated with large volume acquisitions. Planning ...

OBJECTIVE The management of neurovascular disease requires precise information on the cerebral vascular anatomy. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the gold standard against which other imaging modalities have to be measured. To improve the quality of three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images, we present a novel concept in 3D image analysis. METHODS Five patient...

Preoperative imaging is essential for abdominal perforator flap breast reconstruction because it allows for preoperative perforator selection, resulting in improved operative efficiency and flap design. The benefits of visualizing the vasculature preoperatively also extend to gluteal artery perforator flaps. Initially, our practice used computed tomography angiography (CTA) to image the gluteal...