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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Dec 9;67(2):490–498. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23295

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Comparison of location-matched longitudinal MPR images obtained from the “SPACE STL”, “SPACE SWL+SG”, and “SPACE SWL” scans, respectively, in a 45-year-old male volunteer. Shown are three 2-mm-thick images reconstructed from the 3D image sets. Swallowing was shown to induce severe overall image degradation, obscure wall boundary, and reduce the wall-to-background contrast. The proposed SG approach makes SPACE immune to swallowing motion, providing good artery wall delineation and high wall-to-background contrast that is comparable to “SPACE STL” imaging. All images are displayed with the same window level.