Thomas Efren Huerta1, Patrick T. Norton1, B Chhabra2, D B. Drake3, P B. Arnold3, Ahmed Mohamed Housseini1,4, Klaus D. Hagspiel1
1Department of Radiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 2Department of Orthopaedics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 3Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 4Department of Radiology, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
The advent of 3T MR has improved imaging of the small vessels of the hand but still suffers from limitation of temporal resolution for assessing flow dynamics. We evaluated an imaging protocol combining TWIST and VIBE for the assessment of vascular pathology, building on our previous work with standard time resolved MRA.