Super High Contrast USPIO-Enhanced Cerebrovascular Angiography Using Ultrashort Time-to-Echo MRI

Table 1

Image quality metrics measured from Quantitative Ultrashort Time-to-Echo Contrast-Enhanced MR angiography (QUTE-CE MRA), ferumoxytol contrast-enhanced Magnetization Prepared RApid Gradient Echo (Fe MPRAGE), time-of-flight (TOF) MRA, and gadolinium (Gd) contrast-enhanced MPRAGE.

Scan type	scans	SNR	ISH	Blood-tissue CNR	Post-pre CNR
Current study
QUTE-CE	27
Fe MPRAGE	13
TOF	10				—
Clin. practice
Gd MPRAGE	1	291	0.150	168	—

“ scans” is the total number of images used for metric quantification across participants.