Simultaneous bilateral magnetic resonance imaging of the femoral arteries in peripheral arterial disease patients
Ryan Brown PhD
Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Department of Physiology, Biophysics, & Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
Search for more papers by this authorChristof Karmonik PhD
Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorGerd Brunner PhD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorAlan Lumsden MD
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorChristie Ballantyne MD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorShawna Johnson RN
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorYi Wang PhD
Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Department of Physiology, Biophysics, & Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
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Joel Morrisett PhD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Brown-Fondren Bldg, A601, Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77030Search for more papers by this authorRyan Brown PhD
Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Department of Physiology, Biophysics, & Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
Search for more papers by this authorChristof Karmonik PhD
Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorGerd Brunner PhD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorAlan Lumsden MD
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorChristie Ballantyne MD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorShawna Johnson RN
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Search for more papers by this authorYi Wang PhD
Department of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Department of Physiology, Biophysics, & Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
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Joel Morrisett PhD
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
The Methodist Hospital DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Brown-Fondren Bldg, A601, Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77030Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Purpose:
To image the femoral arteries in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients using a bilateral receive coil.
Materials and Methods:
An eight-channel surface coil array for bilateral MRI of the femoral arteries at 3T was constructed and evaluated.
Results:
The bilateral array enabled imaging of a 25-cm segment of the superficial femoral arteries (SFA) from the profunda to the popliteal. The array provided improved the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the periphery and similar SNR in the middle of a phantom compared to three other commercially available coils (4-channel torso, quadrature head, whole body). Multicontrast bilateral images of the in vivo SFA with 1 mm in-plane resolution made it possible to directly compare lesions in the index SFA to the corresponding anatomical site in the contralateral vessel without repositioning the patient or coil. A set of bilateral time-of-flight, T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and proton density-weighted images was acquired in a clinically acceptable exam time of ≈45 minutes.
Conclusion:
The developed bilateral coil is well suited for monitoring dimensional changes in atherosclerotic lesions of the SFA. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2011;. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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