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Improved peripheral MR angiography with temperature regulation in healthy patients
S J Blackband1, D L Buckley, A J Knowles
1Department of Medical Physics, University of Hull, MR Centre, England.
Radiology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Peripheral magnetic resonance (MR) angiography was performed in eight volunteers, with a temperature-controlled water blanket. After warming of the right foot, unobserved vessels became conspicuous in all patients: Average increase in signal intensity was nearly twofold in the major artery and vein depicted. A similar improvement was observed in an examination in one patient with diabetes. Peripheral MR angiography performed after warming provided additional diagnostic information.