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Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions

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 int...

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Autores principales: Hartung, Michael P, Grist, Thomas M, François, Christopher J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21388544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-19
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Grist, Thomas M
François, Christopher J
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description 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. Additionally, the lower risk and cost in non-contrast enhanced (NCE) MRA has sparked renewed interest in these methods. This article discusses the current state of both contrast-enhanced (CE) and NCE-MRA. New CE-MRA methods take advantage of dose reduction at 3.0 T, novel contrast agents, and parallel imaging methods. The risks of gadolinium-based contrast media, and the NCE-MRA methods of time-of-flight, steady-state free precession, and phase contrast are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30608562011-03-19 Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions Hartung, Michael P Grist, Thomas M François, Christopher J J Cardiovasc Magn Reson Review 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. Additionally, the lower risk and cost in non-contrast enhanced (NCE) MRA has sparked renewed interest in these methods. This article discusses the current state of both contrast-enhanced (CE) and NCE-MRA. New CE-MRA methods take advantage of dose reduction at 3.0 T, novel contrast agents, and parallel imaging methods. The risks of gadolinium-based contrast media, and the NCE-MRA methods of time-of-flight, steady-state free precession, and phase contrast are discussed. BioMed Central 2011-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3060856/ /pubmed/21388544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-19 Text en Copyright ©2011 Hartung et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hartung, Michael P
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François, Christopher J
Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title_full Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title_fullStr Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title_full_unstemmed Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title_short Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
title_sort magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21388544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-19
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