Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR with Quantitative Perfusion Analysis of Small Bowel in Vascular Assessment between Inflammatory and Fibrotic Lesions in Crohnʼs Disease: A Feasibility Study

Figure 5

A 32-year-old female with known chronic disease presenting with fibrostenotic mural thickening of ileal segment (arrowhead in (a)), without T2 hyperintensity (arrowhead in (b)), and typical homogenous transmural enhancement (arrow in (c)). The perfusion analysis highlights the pathological segment in the color map (arrowhead in (d)). In this case, the time-intensity curves are characterized by plateau of enhancement (e), with a curve similar to that of the normal bowel.

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