Patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) routinely undergo surveillance imaging to monitor the growth. CTA and CE-MRA provide good accuracy in measuring size relative to gold standard 3D DSA, but require contrast agent and/or have radiation, which is undesirable for repeated imaging. We compared three MRI techniques on 58 aneurysms: 1) 3D non-contrast black blood MRI (SPACE), 2) 3D TOF 3) CE-MRA, against gold standard 3D DSA. SPACE was in excellent agreement with DSA, better than CE-MRA and TOF. Our results support the use of non-contrast SPACE for surveillance of UIA in the clinical setting.
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