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Whole-body MRA

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Clinical Blood Pool MR Imaging

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The morbidity and mortality statistics of developed countries still show vascular diseases in a leading position. Probably the most common manifestation of the systemic disease atherosclerosis is peripheral vascular occlusive disease (PAOD), while the most threatening manifestations are carotid, renal, and coronary artery stenoses [1–5]. All of these manifestations have in common that they need adequate imaging for early detection and optimized treatment planning. There are a number of diagnostic tools for each of these vascular territories, but none of them is regarded as the standard of reference for the entire arterial vascular bed. Until a few years ago, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was a preferred diagnostic tool for the assessment of single anatomical territories, but it was not possible to perform a whole-body MRA. Today this drawback has been overcome, and by combining parallel imaging strategies with whole-body MR systems, the complete vasculature of the body can be examined at once.

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  1. Institute for Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals Munich-Grosshadern, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Harald Kramer

  2. Department of Clinical Radiology Grosshadern Campus, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Konstantin Nikolaou

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  1. Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Peter Debijelaan 25, 6229 HX, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Tim Leiner

  2. University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20251, Hamburg, Germany

    Mathias Goyen

  3. European Business Unit Diagnostic Imaging, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Muellerstrasse 178, 13353, Berlin, Germany

    Martin Rohrer

  4. Department of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim-University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Stefan Schönberg

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Kramer, H., Reiser, M.F., Nikolaou, K. (2008). Whole-body MRA. In: Leiner, T., Goyen, M., Rohrer, M., Schönberg, S. (eds) Clinical Blood Pool MR Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77861-5_11

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