Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo imaging for measuring abdominal aortic wall distensibility: a feasibility study.
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Authors
Lin, Jyh-Miin
Patterson, Andrew
Chao, Tzu-Cheng
Zhu, Chengcheng
Chang, Hing-Chiu
Mendes, Jason
Chung, Hsiao-Wen
Publication Date
2017-05-21Journal Title
Phys Med Biol
ISSN
0031-9155
Volume
62
Issue
10
Pages
N204-N218
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Lin, J., Patterson, A., Chao, T., Zhu, C., Chang, H., Mendes, J., Chung, H., et al. (2017). Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo imaging for measuring abdominal aortic wall distensibility: a feasibility study.. Phys Med Biol, 62 (10), N204-N218. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa685a
Abstract
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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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa685a
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