Noncontrast MR angiography creates equivalent image quality to contrast

December 2, 2008 DiagnosticImaging.com. Noncontrast MR angiography creates equivalent image quality to contrast By Rebekah Moan Noncontrast MR angiography provides an alternative to the more common contrast-enhanced MRA administered with a gadubutrol-based agent, according to a report presented at the RSNA meeting Tuesday morning. Dr. Christopher Francois, an assistant professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin, and colleagues imaged 12 healthy volunteers and 51 patients with a 3D phase-contrast sequence and a novel respiratory gated phase-contrast vastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstruction (PC VIPR) sequence.

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