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Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo imaging with inner-volume imaging significantly reduced intraluminal artifacts of respiratory motion (p=0.015).
p-value: p=0.015
A novel free-breathing black-blood CINE FSE MRI technique is feasible for measuring abdominal aortic wall distensibility, potentially enabling future studies of aortic elasticity.
May facilitate free-breathing aortic imaging; leaves open validation for distensibility assessment.
The paper reports a free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo (FSE) technique for measuring abdominal aortic wall motion. The free-breathing CINE FSE includes the following MR techniques: (1) variable-density sampling with fast iterative reconstruction; (2) inner-volume imaging; and (3) a blood-suppression preparation pulse. The proposed technique was evaluated in eight healthy subjects. The inner-volume imaging significantly reduced the intraluminal artifacts of respiratory motion (p = 0.015). The quantitative measurements were a diameter of 16.3 ± 2.8 mm and wall distensibility of 2.0 ± 0.4 mm (12.5 ± 3.4%) and 0.7 ± 0.3 mm (4.1 ± 1.0%) for the anterior and posterior walls, respectively. The cyclic cross-sectional distensibility was 35 ± 15% greater in the systolic phase than in the diastolic phase. In conclusion, we developed a feasible CINE FSE method to measure the motion of the abdominal aortic wall, which will enable clinical scientists to study the elasticity of the abdominal aorta.
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Lin et al. (2017) studied Healthy (n=8). Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo (FSE) imaging was evaluated on Intraluminal artifacts of respiratory motion (p=0.015). Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo imaging with inner-volume imaging significantly reduced intraluminal artifacts of respiratory motion (p=0.015).
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