Abstract #2664

The Ability to Detect Intracranial Arterial Calcifications: Evaluation of 3D TOF MRA and SNAP

Mahmud Mossa-Basha¹, Haining Liu¹, Dan S. Hippe¹, Niranjan Balu¹, Jie Sun¹, Dean Shibata¹, and Chun Yuan¹

¹Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, United States

Intracranial arterial calcification evaluation has shown increasing importance in the literature based on associations with current and future stroke events, dementia and cognitive decline. We hypothesize that the proton-density image, SNAP Ref, that is generated with Simultaneous Non-contrast Angiography and intraPlaque hemorrhage (SNAP) can more adequately assess calcifications compared to 3D TOF MRA relative to the reference standard, thin slice CTA.

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