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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Jun 18;69(5):1268–1275. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24356

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Axial (top) and reformatted coronal (bottom) maximum-intensity-projection (MIP) images of NCE renal MRA from protocol (i). MIP images from VS-IR imaging show excellent contrast between arteries and background tissues (a). MIP images from SS-IR imaging without ECG gating show poor depiction of arteries due to insufficient arterial inflow (b). Images from SS-IR with the optimized ECG gating show significantly improved artery visualization except at an inferior segment of the abdominal aorta (arrow in c).