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Enhanced Artery Visualization in Blood Pool MRA: Results in the Peripheral Vasculature

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Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 1999)

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Blood pool contrast agents for Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) have a prolonged intravascular half-life and therefore have the potential for visualizing large anatomical regions with high resolution. A potential problem is that both the arteries and veins are enhanced, resulting in venous overprojection in Maximum Intensity Projections (MIPs), which are most widely used for inspecting MRA datasets. In this paper a novel approach for improved arterial visualization is introduced. It is based on suppressing the major overlapping veins in MIPs. The approach is illustrated on MRA images of the peripheral vasculature acquired using the blood pool agent NC100150. The resulting visualizations are compared to Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) images.

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  1. Image Sciences Institute, University Hospital Utrecht, Room E.01.334, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Wiro Niessen, Onno Wink & Max Viergever

  2. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht

    Alexander Montauban van Swijndregt & Willem Mali

  3. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht

    Bernard Elsman

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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, József Attila University, Árpád tér 2., H-6720, Szeged, Hungary

    Attila Kuba

  2. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Charles University of Prague, Salmovska 3, CZ-120 00, Prague, Czech Republic

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  3. Department of Medical Physics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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Niessen, W., van Swijndregt, A.M., Elsman, B., Wink, O., Viergever, M., Mali, W. (1999). Enhanced Artery Visualization in Blood Pool MRA: Results in the Peripheral Vasculature. In: Kuba, A., Šáamal, M., Todd-Pokropek, A. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48714-X_26

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