波谱学杂志 ›› 2016, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 528-538.doi: 10.11938/cjmr20160402

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

基于优化后流动敏感黑血序列的豆纹动脉3T磁共振成像

李律1, 周赜辰1, 苑纯1,2, 郭华1   

  1. 1. 清华大学 医学院 生物医学工程系, 生物医学影像研究中心, 北京 100084;
    2. Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195-5502, USA
  • 收稿日期:2016-03-15 修回日期:2016-10-23 出版日期:2016-12-05 发布日期:2016-12-05
  • 通讯作者: 郭华,电话:010-62795886,E-mail:huaguo@tsinghua.edu.cn E-mail:huaguo@tsinghua.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:李律(1991-),男,浙江宁波人,硕士研究生,生物医学工程专业

Imaging Lenticulostriate Arteries at 3 Tesla Using Optimized Flow-Sensitive Black-Blood Technique

LI Lyu1, ZHOU Ze-chen1, YUAN Chun1,2, GUO Hua1   

  1. 1. Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    2. Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5502, USA
  • Received:2016-03-15 Revised:2016-10-23 Online:2016-12-05 Published:2016-12-05

摘要: 豆纹动脉是大脑内部的重要动脉,其阻塞往往会导致腔隙性脑梗死.现在在临床上主要利用数字减影血管造影(Digital Subtraction Angiography,DSA)技术实现豆纹动脉成像,然而DSA的有创性是其重要的限制因素.有研究表明,在高场磁共振系统(7 T)下,时间飞跃法(Time-Of-Flight,TOF)已经能够得到较好的豆纹动脉影像,但是在临床使用的1.5 T或3 T磁共振系统下,由于豆纹动脉的管腔直径非常小(大约为0.3~0.7 mm)、血流速度比较慢,对其成像仍然是个挑战.该文主要研究了在3 T磁共振系统下使用流动敏感黑血(Flow-Sensitive Black-Blood,FSBB)序列对豆纹动脉进行成像的方法,并对该成像序列中流动敏感梯度的设计进行了优化,使其在扫描时间和图像分辨率、对比度、信噪比等方面都能够基本满足临床使用的要求.

关键词: 磁共振成像(MRI), 豆纹动脉, 流动敏感黑血(FSBB)技术, 磁共振血管造影(MRA), 梯度优化

Abstract: Occlusion of lenticulostriate arteries (LSAs) often leads to lacunar infarction. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) has high spatial resolution and superior definition of small vessels, and is the most widely used clinical routine to image LSAs. One drawback of DSA, however, is its invasiveness. Time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was recently shown to be able to image LSAs at ultra-high fields (i.e., 7 T) with specially-designed receiving coils. However, image LSAs with TOF-MRA on clinical MRI systems can be difficult due to the facts that blood flow in LSAs is slow and the luminal diameters in these vessels are small (i.e., 0.3~0.7 mm) relative to the dimension of imaging voxels. In this study, the flow-sensitive black-blood (FSBB) technique was optimized to image LSAs at 3 T to achieve a proper balance among spatial resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and scan time.

Key words: lenticulostriate artery, magnetic resonance angiography(MRA), MRI, flowsensitive black-blood(FSBB) technique, gradient optimization

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