Abstract #0638
Non-contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the fetal head and neck vessels
Uday Krishnamurthy 1,2 , Jaladhar Neelavalli 1,2 , Pavan Kumar Jella 1 , Ehsan Hamtaei 1 , Swati Mody 1 , Brijesh Kumar Yadav 1,2 , Edgar Hernandez-Andrade 3,4 , Lami Yeo 3,4 , Maria D Cabrera 1 , Ewart Mark Haacke 1,2 , Sonia S Hassan 3,4 , and Roberto Romero 4
1
Department of Radiology, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan, United States,
2
Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan, United States,
3
Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan, United States,
4
Perinatology
Research Branch, NICHD, NIH, DHHS, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Doppler Ultrasound (US) is the standard clinical tools
used for evaluating fetal vessels. However, the efficacy
of these techniques is operator dependent and may be
difficult in certain cases. On the other hand, MRI is
ideally suited for vascular imaging. Fetal vascular
imaging is limited not only by the imaging resolution
but also by motion artifacts. In this study we evaluated
the feasibility of acquiring non-contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance angiographic (MRA) in the human fetus
and further, simulated a compressed sensing CS sampling
scheme to evaluate the potential utility of CS
reconstruction in fetal MR angiography.
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