Abstract #0167

Susceptibility Weighted Imaging at 3 Tesla Is Superior to Time-Of-Flight-Angiography for the Detection of Peripheral Thrombi in Patients with Acute Stroke

Alexander Radbruch¹,², Johanna Mucke¹, Matthias Roethke², Heinz-Peter Schlemmer², Sabine Heiland¹, Martin Bendszus¹, Stefan Rohde¹

¹Department of Neuroradiology, Heidelberg University Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany; ²Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

While time of flight (TOF) angiography detects occlusion of arteries in patients with acute ischemic stroke due to the absence of blood flow in the occluded vessel, Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) enables visualization of the occluding thrombus. In our study we investigated the sensitivity of both methods for the detection of peripheral and central vessel occlusion and found SWI to be superior to TOF-angiography for the detection of peripheral thrombi.