3D Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced Cerebrovascular MR Angiography with Subsecond Frame Update Times Using Radial k-Space Trajectories and Highly Constrained Projection Reconstruction

Abstract

SUMMARY: HYPR TRICKS is an acquisition method that combines radial k-space trajectories, sampling k-space at different rates (TRICKS), and a new strategy for image reconstruction that uses highly constrained backprojection reconstruction (HYPR). This approach provides 3D time-resolved contrast-enhanced MR angiograms of the cerebral vessels with subsecond frame update times and submillimeter in-plane spatial resolution. Artifacts are suppressed, and signal-to-noise ratio is well maintained, by using HYPR reconstruction.