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. 2021 Sep 9;8:739332. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.739332

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Copyright © 2021 Zhang, Ran, Zhu, Lei, Niu, Wang, Zhang, Li, Zhu, Gao, Mossa-Basha, Cheng and Zhu.

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A representative case of a 63-year-old female patient who underwent stent angioplasty due to atherosclerotic stenosis of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) at the M1 segment (blue arrows). Pre-intervention images are shown on the top row (a) TOF-MRA, (b) PETRA-MRA, and (c) DSA. The degree of stenosis was 79.8% on TOF, 65.3% on PETRA-MRA, and 68.6% on DSA. Image quality scores of the PETRA-MRA and 3D-TOF were both 4. Post-intervention images are shown on the bottom row (d) 3D-TOF, (e) PETRA-MRA, and (f) DSA. Post-intervention TOF-MRA had strong signal loss near the stent, and post-intervention PETRA-MRA had mild signal loss near the stent comparing with reference DSA. PETRA-MRA had significantly higher image quality scores than those of TOF-MRA considering flow visualization within the stents (PETRA-MRA, 4; 3D-TOF, 1) and susceptibility artifact (PETRA-MRA, 3; 3D-TOF, 1).