Gadolinium Enhanced MR Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging at 3.0 Tesla
Figure 3
(a) MR-coronary angiography of the RCA (white arrows) showing intraluminal signal loss at medial and distal RCA as demonstrated by coronary angiography (d) (black arrows). Reformatted inversion recovery MR images: (b) 33 minutes; (c) age range 50 minutes; (e) 68 minutes, and (f) 77 minutes post contrast administration demonstrate strong enhancement of the coronary vessel wall at the earliest time-points and signal loss over the time-intervals (white arrows). Note strong enhancement of the vessel wall of the aortic arch (dashed arrows) in contrast to the loss of enhancement of the RCA (solid arrows) and LCX (interrupted arrows) over time. There is also enhancement of the pulmonary artery (asterisk).
