Technique | Comments |
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PRECONTRAST | |
Dark blood stacks typically in axial, coronal and sagittal planes e.g. HASTE | Provides vessel wall imaging as well as complementary information to CE-MRA regarding lumen |
Noncontrast bright blood stack(s) e.g. SSFP | Â |
CONTRAST | Â |
3D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography e.g. spoiled gradient echo | Appropriate vasculature should be covered depending on clinical questions and known or suspected diagnosis (see Table 2) |
POSTCONTRAST | Â |
T1-weighted vessel wall imaging e.g. VIBE or FAME | Additional vessel wall imaging, particularly useful to delineate thickening and thrombus |
CARDIAC ACQUISITIONS | Â |
Multiplane cine imaging e.g. SSFP Aortic valve velocity-encoded cine Myocardial imaging: T2 precontrast, T1W early post contrast, late post-gadolinium imaging | May be appropriate when aortic root disease involves the aortic valve or when myocardial inflammation is suspected, particularly in small-vessel vasculitides |