Figure 1From: Steady state imaging of the thoracic vasculature using inversion recovery FLASH and SSFP with a blood pool contrast agentMRA of the thoracic aorta of a 57-year-old man in a sagittal oblique orientation (a-c) and in a multiplane reformat image (MPR) orthogonal to the sinus of Valsalva (d-f). The image quality of FP-MRA (a, d) is not as high as in the SS-MRA images: IR-FLASH (b, e) and IR-SSFP (c, f).Back to article page