Feasibility of a sub-3-minute imaging strategy for ungated quiescent interval slice-selective MRA of the extracranial carotid arteries using radial k-space sampling and deep learning-based image processing.

Journal: Magnetic resonance in medicine
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To develop and test the feasibility of a sub-3-minute imaging strategy for non-contrast evaluation of the extracranial carotid arteries using ungated quiescent interval slice-selective (QISS) MRA, combining single-shot radial sampling with deep neural network-based image processing to optimize image quality.

Authors

  • Ioannis Koktzoglou
    Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois.
  • Rong Huang
    School of Nursing, Chuanbei Medical College, Nanchong, China.
  • Archie L Ong
    Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Pascale J Aouad
    Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois.
  • Emily A Aherne
    Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois.
  • Robert R Edelman
    Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois.