B-TFE renal artery angiography in renal artery stenosis and image quality analysis.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 B-TFE renal artery angiography in renal artery stenosis and image quality analysis Of: care of Zhong Zhiwei Sun Chong Kun Peng, LI Xin-chun He Jianxun [Abstract] Objective renal artery imaging with contrast-enhanced (CE-MRA) compared with B-TFE sequence of renal artery angiography image quality and the ability to diagnose renal artery stenosis. Methods 26 patients with suspected renal artery stenosis in patients with B-TFE sequence Renal artery imaging and contrast-enhanced imaging of the renal artery were retrospectively analyzed two groups were compared two methods to measure and signal to noise ratio (SNR), contrast to noise ratio (CNR), the maximum display length of the renal artery, and the two methods the degree of renal artery stenosis grading consistency. Results B-TFE sequence shows the 47 renal arteries and 9 accessory renal arteries. CE-MRA shows 51 renal arteries and 9 accessory renal arteries. B-TFE SNR lower than the sequence of CE-MRA, were 50 + -13 and 69 + -10 (P lt;0.03); B-TFE sequence CNR was also lower than CE-MRA, respectively, and 98 + 46 + -7 - 11 (P lt;0.01). In B-TFE sequence of bilateral renal artery were lower than the maximum display length of the display of the length of CE-MRA (right renal artery: 59mm and 67mm, P lt;0.05; left renal artery: 51mm and 56mm, P lt;0.05). CE-MRA shows 10 renal artery stenosis, B-TFE shows the 11 renal artery stenosis, B-TFE sequence and CE-MRA for the evaluation of stenosis in good agreement, κ values 0.757 (P lt;0.01). Conclusions B-TFE sequence of image quality is lower than CE-MRA, but the B-TFE sequence can accurately evaluate the degree of renal artery stenosis. [Keywords:] Renal artery; magnetic resonance angiography; field echo [Abstract] Objective To investigate the image quality and the potential to diagnose renal artery stenosis of balanced turbo field echo (B-TFE) MR angiography by comparing with contrast enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA). Methods 26 patie