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Meng Y, Mo Z, Hao J, Peng Y, Yan H, Mu J, Ma D, Zhang X, Li Y. High-resolution intravascular magnetic resonance imaging of the coronary artery wall at 3.0 Tesla: toward evaluation of atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2021; 11:4522-4529. [PMID: 34737920 DOI: 10.21037/qims-21-286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Background To validate the feasibility of generating high-resolution intravascular 3.0 Tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging of the coronary artery wall to further plaque imaging. Methods A receive-only 0.014-inch diameter magnetic resonance imaging guidewire (MRIG) was manufactured for intravascular imaging within a phantom experiment and the coronary artery wall of the swine. For coronary artery wall imaging, both high-resolution images and conventional resolution images were acquired. A 16-channel commercial surface coil for magnetic resonance imaging was employed for the control group. Results For the phantom experiment, the MRIG showed a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the surface coil. The peak signal-to-noise ratio of the MRIG and the surface coil-generated imaging were 213.6 and 19.8, respectively. The signal-to-noise ratio decreased rapidly as the distance from the MRIG increased. For the coronary artery wall experiment, the vessel wall imaging by the MRIG could be identified clearly, whereas the vessel wall imaging by the surface coil was blurred. The average signal-to-noise ratio of the artery wall was 21.1±5.40 by the MRIG compared to 8.4±2.19 by the surface coil, where the resolution was set at 0.2 mm × 0.2 mm × 2 mm. As expected, the high-resolution sequence clearly showed more details than the conventional resolution sequence set at 0.7 mm × 0.7 mm × 2.0 mm. Histological examination showed no evidence of mechanical injuries in the target vessel walls. Conclusions The study validated the feasibility of generating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 0.2 mm × 0.2 mm × 2 mm for the coronary artery wall using a 0.014 inch MRIG.
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- Yanfeng Meng
- Department of MRI, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.,The Key Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance and Multimodality Imaging of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of MRI, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of MRI, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of MRI, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Taiyuan Central Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.,The Key Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance and Multimodality Imaging of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, China
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Wang YXJ, Lo GG, Yuan J, Larson PEZ, Zhang X. Magnetic resonance imaging for lung cancer screen. J Thorac Dis 2014; 6:1340-8. [PMID: 25276380 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.08.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 08/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death throughout the world. Lung cancer is an example of a disease for which a large percentage of the high-risk population can be easily identified via a smoking history. This has led to the investigation of lung cancer screening with low-dose helical/multi-detector CT. Evidences suggest that early detection of lung cancer allow more timely therapeutic intervention and thus a more favorable prognosis for the patient. The positive relationship of lesion size to likelihood of malignancy has been demonstrated previously, at least 99% of all nodules 4 mm or smaller are benign, while noncalcified nodules larger than 8 mm diameter bear a substantial risk of malignancy. In the recent years, the availability of high-performance gradient systems, in conjunction with phased-array receiver coils and optimized imaging sequences, has made MR imaging of the lung feasible. It can now be assumed a threshold size of 3-4 mm for detection of lung nodules with MRI under the optimal conditions of successful breath-holds with reliable gating or triggering. In these conditions, 90% of all 3-mm nodules can be correctly diagnosed and that nodules 5 mm and larger are detected with 100% sensitivity. Parallel imaging can significantly shorten the imaging acquisition time by utilizing the diversity of sensitivity profile of individual coil elements in multi-channel radiofrequency receive coil arrays or transmit/receive coil arrays to reduce the number of phase encoding steps required in imaging procedure. Compressed sensing technique accelerates imaging acquisition from dramatically undersampled data set by exploiting the sparsity of the images in an appropriate transform domain. With the combined imaging algorithm of parallel imaging and compressed sensing and advanced 32-channel or 64-channel RF hardware, overall imaging acceleration of 20 folds or higher can then be expected, ultimately achieve free-breathing and no ECG gating acquisitions in lung cancer MRI screening. Further development of protocols, more clinical trials and the use of advanced analysis tools will further evaluate the real significance of lung MRI.
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- Yi-Xiang J Wang
- 1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China ; 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 3 Medical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 4 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ; 5 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Program, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China ; 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 3 Medical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 4 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ; 5 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Program, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China ; 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 3 Medical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 4 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ; 5 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Program, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China ; 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 3 Medical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 4 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ; 5 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Program, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China ; 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 3 Medical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China ; 4 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ; 5 UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Program, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
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Zhang X, Ji JX. Parallel and sparse MR imaging: methods and instruments-Part 1. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2014; 4:1-3. [PMID: 24649428 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.03.01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Xiaoliang Zhang
- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco; UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program; California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), San Francisco, CA 94158, USA ; 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco; UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program; California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), San Francisco, CA 94158, USA ; 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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