Assessing Blood Flow in an Intracranial Stent: A Feasibility Study of MR Angiography Using a Silent Scan after Stent-Assisted Coil Embolization for Anterior Circulation Aneurysms.

Ryusuke IrieM SuzukiM YamamotoN TakanoY SugaMasaaki HoriK KamagataM TakayamaM YoshidaS SatoN HamasakiH OishiS Aoki

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2014)

Silent MRA was able to visualize flow in an intracranial stent more effectively than TOF MRA. Silent MRA might be useful for follow-up imaging after stent-assisted coil embolization, though these study results may be only preliminary due to some limitations.

Keyphrases

blood flow
contrast enhanced
computed tomography
optical coherence tomography
high resolution
magnetic resonance imaging
ms ms
magnetic resonance
optic nerve
fluorescence imaging