Variable-Density Velocity-Selective Preparation for Non-Contrast-Enhnaced MR Angiography

Velocity-selective (VS) magnetization preparation has shown great promise for non-contrast-enhanced MR angiography. Under the excitation k-space formalism, VS preparation pulse allocated RF weights to k-space at uniform intervals which leads to the aliased excitation at the inverse of the k-space interval (termed velocity FOV). In this study, we proposed a new version of VS preparation pulse with a diffused pattern of aliased saturation. The initial in-vivo test of the new version of VS-MRA shows a reduced effect of the aliased saturation compared with conventional VS-MRA.